A History of Sanskrit Literature c11.73

c11.73

To the *Sāmaveda* also belongs a very short treatise which was long called the *Talavakāra Upanishad*, from the school to which it was attached, but later, when it became separated from that school, received the name of *Kena*, from its initial word. It consists of two distinct parts. The second, composed in prose and much older, describes the relation of the Vedic gods to Brahma, representing them as deriving their power from and entirely dependent on the latter. The first part, which is metrical and belongs to the period of fully developed Vedānta doctrine, distinguishes from the qualified Brahma, which is an object of worship, the unqualified Brahma, which is unknowable:—