The History of Indian Literature c8.245.3

c8.245.3

this section is perhaps therefore only erroneously assigned to the school of the Kaṭhas.—The *Taittiríya-Áraṇyaka*, at the head of which that section stands (as already remarked), and which belongs both to the Ápastamba and Átreya schools, must at all events be regarded as only a later supplement to their Bráhmaṇa, and belongs, like most of the Áraṇyakas, to the extreme end of the Vedic period. It consists of ten books, the first six of which are of a liturgical character: the first and third books relate to the manner of preparing certain sacred sacrificial fires; the second to preparatives to the study of Scripture; and the fourth, fifth, and sixth to purificatory sacrifices and those to the Manes, corresponding to the last books of the Saṃhitá of the White Yajus. The last four books of the Áraṇyaka, on the contrary, contain two Upanishads; viz., the seventh, eighth, and ninth books, the *Taittiríyopanishad*, *κατ' ἐξοχὴν* so called, and the tenth, the *Yájnikí-* or *Náráyaṇíyá-Upanishad*. The former, or Taittiríyopanishad, is in three parts. The first is the *Saṃhitopanishad*, or *Śikshávallí*,[^asterisk] which begins with a short grammatical disquisition,⁹⁷ and then turns to the question of the unity of the world-spirit.