The History of Indian Literature c8.252.1

c8.252.1

When we look about us for the other Bráhmaṇas of the Black Yajus, we find, in the first place, among the schools cited in the Sáma-Sútras two which must probably be considered as belonging to the Black Yajus, viz., the *Bháilavins* and the *Sátyáyanins*. The Bráhmaṇa of the *Bhállavins* is quoted by the scholiast on Páṇini, probably following the Mahábháshya,⁹⁸ as one of the 'old' Bráhmaṇas: we find it mentioned in the Bṛihaddevatá; Sureśvaráchárya also, and even Sáyaṇa himself, quote passages from the Bhállaviśruti. A passage supposed to be borrowed from the Bhállavi-Upanishad is adduced by the sect of the Mádhavas in support of the correctness of their (Dvaita) belief (*As. Res.*, xvi. 104). That the Bhállavins belong to the Black Yajus is, however, still uncertain; I only conclude so at present from the fact that Bhállaveya is the name of a teacher specially attacked and censured in the Bráhmaṇa of the White Yajus. As to the *Sátyáyanins*, whose Bráhmaṇa is also reckoned among the 'old' ones by the scholiast on Páṇini,⁹⁹ and is frequently quoted, especially by Sáyaṇa, it is pretty certain that they belong to the Black Yajus, as it is so stated in the Charaṇavyúha, a modern index of the different schools of the Vedas, and, moreover, a teacher named Sátyáyani is twice mentioned in the Bráhmaṇa of the White Yajus.