The History of Indian Literature c8.473.4

c8.473.4

of the *Bibliotheca Indica* together with Śaṃkara's commentary.¹⁷⁵—The name of Pippaláda is borne by another Upanishad, the *Garbha-Upanishad* (23), which I add here for this reason, although in other respects this is not quite its proper place. Its contents differ from those of all the other Upanishads, and relate to the human body, to its formation as embryo and the various parts of which it is composed, and the number and weight of these. The whole is a commentary on a *trishtubh* strophe prefixed to it, the words of which are passed in review singly and further remarks then subjoined. The mention of the names of the seven musical notes of the present day, as well as of the weights now in use (which are found besides in Varáha Mihira), brings us to a tolerably modern date; so also the use of Devadatta in the sense of *Caius*. A few passages in which, among other things, mention is made, for instance, of Náráyaṇa as Supreme Lord, and of the Sáṃkhya and Yoga as the means of attaining knowledge of him, reappear in the fourteenth book—a supplementary one—of Yáska's Nirukti. Whether Śaṃkara expounded this Upanishad is as yet uncertain. It is translated in *Ind. Stud.*, ii. 65–71.¹⁷⁶—In the *Brahmopanishad* also (24), Pippaláda appears, here with the title *bhagaván Aṅgirás*; he is thus identified with the latter, as the authority for the particular doctrine here taught which he imparts to Śaunaka (*maháśála*), exactly as is the case in the Muṇḍakopanishad.