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The Religions of India

CHAPTER X
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lxviii.] [Footnote 7: The relation between the Br[=a]hmanas (ritual works discussed in the last chapter) and the early Upanishads will be seen better with the help of a concrete example.

As has been explained before, Rig Veda means to the Hindu not only the 'Collection' of hymns, but all the library connected with this collection; for instance, the two Br[=a]hmanas (of the Rig Veda), namely, the Aitareya and the K[=a]ush[=i]taki (or C[=a]nkh[=a]yana).

Now, each of these Br[=a]hmanas concludes with an [=A]ranyaka, that is, a Forest-Book (_ara[n.]ya_, forest, solitude); and in each Forest Book is an Upanishad.

For example, the third book of the K[=a]ush[=i]taki [=A]ranyaka is the K[=a]ush[=i]taki Upanishad.

So the Ch[=a]ndogya and Brihad [=A]ranyaka belong respectively to the S[=a]man and Yajus.] [Footnote 8: This teaching is ascribed to C[=a]ndilya, to whose heresy, as opposed to the pure Vedantic doctrinc of Cankara, we shall have to revert in a later chapter.


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