India as Known to Panini: A Study of the Cultural Material in the Ashtadhyayi c10.s3.4

c10.s3.4

(2) *Prokta* (IV.3.101). Literature promulgated or enounced by Ṛishis, as founders of the different Vedic *Charaṇas*. Under this class were included the *Chhandas* works (IV.2.66), or *Śākhās*, e.g. the *Śākhā* works of the Taittirīyas (IV.3.102), Kaṭhas (IV.3.107) and Kālāpās (IV.3.108); and the older Brāhmaṇas (IV.3.105). As pointed out above the *Prokta* works were connected with the teachers and students devoted to their study in the *Charaṇas*. This complete identity of the name of a Vedic text with that of its students held good for Śākhā and Brāhmaṇa works only (IV.2.66). For example, in the School of the Taittirīyas, the original Śākhā and its Brāhmaṇa alone would be entitled to a name in accordance with the rule of *tad-vishayatā*, as *Taittirīya Śākhā* and *Taittirīya Brāhmaṇa*. But in course of time the Āraṇyaka and Upanishad portions were also developed as constituent parts of the *Brāhmaṇas*, and the name *Taittirīya* was applied to them also.