The History of Indian Literature c8.260

c8.260

∗ I obtained them quite recently, in transcript, through the kindness of Baron d’Eckstein, of Paris, together with the tenth *adhyáya* of a metrical paraphrase, called *Anubhútiprakáśa*, of this Upanishad, extending, in 150 *ślokas*, over these four *prapáṭhakas*. The latter is copied from E. I. H., 693, and is probably identical with the work of Vidyáraṇya often mentioned by Colebrooke. [It is really so; and this portion has since been published, together with the Upanishad in full, by Cowell, in his edition of the Maitr. Upanishad, in seven *prapáṭhakas*, with Rámatírtha’s commentary and an English translation, in the *Bibl. Ind.* (1862–70). According to the commentary, on the one hand, the two last books are to be considered as *khilas*, and on the other, the whole Upanishad belongs to a *púrvakáṇḍa*, in four books, of ritual purport, by which most likely is meant the Maitráyaṇí-Saṃhitá discussed by Bühler (see *I. St.*, xiii. 119, ff.), in which the Upanishad is quoted as the second (!) *káṇḍa*; see *l. c.*, p. 121. The transcript sent me by Eckstein shows manifold deviations from the other text; its original has unfortunately not been discovered yet.]