The History of Indian Literature c8.466

c8.466

Apart from the two last-named Upanishads, the transition to the Atharvopanishads is formed on the one hand by those Upanishads which are found in one of the other three Vedas, as well as in a somewhat modified form in an Atharvan-recension, and on the other hand by those Upanishads of which the Atharvan-recension is the only one extant, although they may have formerly existed in the other Vedas as well. Of the latter we have only one instance, the *Káṭhaka-Upanishad* (15, 16); of the former, on the contrary, there are several instances (17–20), viz., *Kena* (from the Sámaveda), *Bhriguvallí*, *Ánandavallí*, and *Brihannáráyaṇa* (Taitt. Ár., viii.–ix.).