The History of Indian Literature c8.362.3

c8.362.3

Of the third *bráhmaṇa*, which contains ritual injunctions, we also find another recension, *ibid.* vii. 2. It concludes with a Vaṅśa, not, however, in the form of a list, but of a detailed account. According to it, the first author of the doctrine here taught was Uddálaka Áruṇi, who imparted it to Yájnavalkya, here for the first time called Vájasaneya;[^asterisk] his pupil was Madhuka Paiṅgya, from whom the doctrine was transmitted to Chúḍa Bhágavitti, then to Jánaki Ayaḥsthúṇa, and lastly to Satyakáma Jábála. The name of the latter (a teacher often alluded to in the Chhándogyopanishad) is in fact borne in later works by a school of the White Yajus, so that we might perhaps ascribe to him the final adjustment of this doctrine in its existing form. The fourth and last *bráhmaṇa* of this *adhyáya* is, like the third, surprising, from the nature of its contents, which, consisting as they do of the rites to be observed before, and at the time of, coitus, as well as after the birth of a son, more properly pertain to a Gṛihya-Sútra. It too closes with a Vaṅśa,∗ this time of quite unusual length, and distinguished, as far as the more recent members are concerned, by this peculiarity, that their names are formed by the addition of *putra* to the mother’s name (see above p. 71), and that both parts of the names are accentuated. Ásuri is here called the pupil of Yájnavalkya, and the latter the pupil of Uddálaka.