OR SACRED WRITINGS OF THE HINDUS. 4^3 



which occupies the whole of the seventh chapter*, 

 has been aheady quoted. The preceding chapter 

 consists of two dialogues between Swe'tace'tu, 

 grandson of Arun'a, and his own father, Udda- 

 LACA, the son of Arun'a. These had been pre- 

 pared in the fifth chapter, where Prava'hana, 

 son of JivALA, convicts S'we'tace'tu of ignorance 

 in tlieology : and where that conversation is fol- 

 lowed by several other dialogues, intermixed with 

 successive references for instruction. The fourth 

 chapter opens with a story respecting Ja'nas'ruti, 

 grandson of Putra ; and, in this and the fifth 

 chapter, dialogues, between human beings, are 

 interspersed with others in which the interlocu- 

 tors are either divine or imaginary persons. The 

 eighth or last chapter contains a disquisition on 

 the soul, in a conference between Praja'pati aad 

 Indra. 



I shall here quote, from this ITpaniskad, a single 

 dialogue belonging to the fifth chapter. 



* Pra'chi'nas'a'la, son of Upamanyu, Saty- 

 ayajnya, issue of Pulusha, Indradyumna, off- 

 spring of Bhallavi, Jan a descendant of S'ar- 

 cara'cshya, and Vudila sprung from As'wa- 

 taraVwa, being all persons deeply conversant 

 with holy writ, and possessed of great dwellings, 

 meeting together, engaged in this disquisition, 

 " What is our soul ? and who is Brahme T 



* These venerable persons reflected, " Udda'la- 

 ca, the son of Arun'a, is well acquainted with 

 the universal soul : let us immediately go to him." 



* That is the seventh of the extract which constitutes this 

 Vponishad ; but the ninth, according to the mode of numbering 

 the chapters, in liie book, whence it is taken. 



