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itncommented by the principal expounders of the 

 Vedanta, for a reason before-mentioned. The 

 names of these Upanishads will be found in the 

 subjoined note*. 



The foUowino: six (from the 29th to the 34th,) 

 constitute the Nrisinha Tapaniya ; five of them 

 compose the Furva Tapaniya, or first part of the 

 Upanishad so called ; and the last, and most im- 

 portant, is entitled Uttara Tdpaniya. It has been 

 expounded by Gaud apa'da, as the first part (if 

 not the whole Upanishad) has been by SANCARAf. 

 The object of this treatise appears to be the iden- 

 tifying of Nrisinha with all the gods: but, so 

 far as I comprehend its meaning (for I have not 

 sufficiently examined it to pronounce confidently 

 on this point,) the fabulous incarnation of Vish- 

 nu, in the shape of a vast lion, does not seem to 

 be at all intended; and the name of Nrisinha is 

 applied to the divinity, with a superlative import, 

 but w*itli no apparent allusion to that fable. 



The two next Upanishads constitute the first and 

 second parts of tlie Cat'haca, or Valli, or Catlia- 

 "valli (for the name varies in different copies). It 

 belongs properly to the Yajurveda. as before men- 

 tioned ; but it is usually cited from the A'fhar- 



* \6i\i N'lla-rudra. IJXh Ndda-vindii. ISth Brnhme-vindu. 

 19th Amrita-vindu. 20fh D'hyana-vmdu. !21.st Tijo-ciridu. 

 22d Yoga-sicshd. 23d Yogchtafwa. 24th Sannydsa. . 25tli 

 Arun'iya or Arun'i-y62:a. 26i\i Cant'hasruti. 27lh Pin da. 

 2Sth A'tmd. 



t I have several copies of the text, and of Gau i>'apa'DA's 

 commentary ; with a single tnniscript of Sancara".s f^losb Kn\ Uie 

 five first of the treatises entitled Tdpaniya, 



