The History of Indian Literature c8.245.2

c8.245.2

they do not, however, appear to exist as an independent work, but only in connection with the Bráhmaṇa and Áraṇyaka of the Ápastamba- (and Átreya-) schools, from which, for the rest, they can be externally distinguished easily enough by the absence of the expansion of *v* and *y* into *uv* and *iy*. The legend quoted towards the end of the second of these sections (*prap*. xi. 8), as to the visit of Nachiketas, to the lower world, gave rise to an Upanishad of the Atharvan which bears the name of Káṭhakopanishad. Now, between this supplement to the Káṭhaka and the Káṭhaka itself a considerable space of time must have elapsed, as follows from the allusions made in the last sections to Mahá-Meru, Krauñcha, Mainága; to Vaisampáyana, Vyása Páráśarya, &c.; as well as from the literature therein presupposed as existing, the 'Atharváṅgirasas,' Bráhmaṇas, Itihásas, Puráṇas, Kalpas, Gáthás, and Náráśaṅsís being enumerated as subjects of study (*svádhyáya*). Further, the last but one of these sections is ascribed to another author, viz., to the Aruṇas, or to Áruṇa, whom the scholiast on Páṇini⁹⁶ speaks of as a pupil of Vaiśampáyana, a statement with which its mention of the latter as an authority tallies excellently;