A History of Sanskrit Literature c11.18

c11.18

To the *Kaushītaki Brāhmaṇa* is attached the *Kaushītaki Āraṇyaka*. It consists of fifteen chapters. The first two of these correspond to Books I. and V. of the *Aitareya Āraṇyaka*, the seventh and eighth to Book III., while the intervening four chapters (3–6) form the *Kaushītaki Upanishad*. The latter is a long and very interesting Upanishad. It seems not improbably to have been added as an independent treatise to the completed Āraṇyaka, as it is not always found in the same part of the latter work in the manuscripts.