The History of Indian Literature c8.107

c8.107

The contents of the Aitareya-Áraṇyaka, as we now have it,³⁵ supply no direct clue to the time of its composition, other than the one already noticed, namely, that in the second chapter of the second book the extant arrangement of the Ṛik-Saṃhitá is given. Again, the number of teachers individually mentioned is very great, particularly in the third book—among them are two Śákalyas, a Kṛishṇa Háríta, a Pañchálachaṇḍa—and this may be considered as an additional proof of its more recent origin, a conclusion already implied by the spirit and form of the opinions enunciated.³⁶