India as Known to Panini: A Study of the Cultural Material in the Ashtadhyayi c10.s3.t1.39
India as Known to Pāṇini: A Study of the Cultural Material in the Ashṭādhyāyī c10.s3.t1.39
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c10.s3.t1.39
*BRĀHMAṆA LITERATURE*—The *Brāhmaṇa* works were on a footing with the *Śākhās* in one respect, *viz.* they were represented by Vedic Schools comprising students who studied those texts. It is possible that some Vedic Schools did not evolve their own independent *Chhandas* texts or *Śākhās*, but depended on their compilations of *Brāhmaṇa* texts only. Of the names of Vedic Saṁhitās given above, many are traced in citations as Brāhmaṇa works. Similarly the activity of some Schools as pointed out above was confined to the composition of *sūtra* works only.