The supreme being is above time, as he is without parts (_ib_.).
In this later Upanishad wisdom, penance, and the grace of God are requisite to know _brahma_.] [Footnote 16: This Vedic [Greek: Adgos] doctrine is conspicuous in the Br[=a]hmana.

Compare _Cat.Br_.VII.

5.
2.

21: "V[=a]c ([Greek: Adgos]) is the Unborn one; from V[=a]c the all-maker made creatures." See Weber, _Ind.
Stud_.IX.477 ff.] [Footnote 17: Compare J.U.B.

i.56.1, 'Water (alone) existed in the beginning.' This is the oldest and latest Hindu explanation of the matter of the physical universe.
From the time of the Vedas to mediaeval times, as is recorded by the Greek travellers, water is regarded as the original element.] [Footnote 18: The Gandh[=a]ra might indicate a late geographical expansion as well as an early heritage, so that this is not conclusive.] [Footnote 19: Gough, _Philosophy of the Upanishads_, has sought to show that the pure Vedantism of Cankara is the only belief taught in the Upanishads, ignoring the weight of those passages that oppose his (in our view) too sweeping assertion.] [Footnote 20: See the Parimara described, _[=A]it.