The History of Indian Literature c8.474

c8.474

¹⁷⁴ The list of the Atharvopanishads begins, as a rule, with the Muṇḍakopanishad; and, according to the statements in Náráyaṇabhaṭṭa's scholium on the smaller Ath. Upanishads now being edited (since 1872) in the *Bibl. Indica* by Rámamaya Tarkaratna, a settled order of these Upanishads must still have been in existence in the time of Náráyaṇabhaṭṭa, since he denotes the individual Upanishads as, *e.g.*, the seventh, the eighth, &c., reckoning from the Muṇḍaka. This order is occasionally ascribed by him to the Śaunaka-school. Compare as to this the remarks of Colebrooke, *Misc. Ess.*, i. 93, according to which the first fifteen Upanishads only would belong to the Śaunakíyas, and the following Up. to other Śákhás. But Náráyaṇa, with whom, as regards the order of the first twenty-eight names, Colebrooke agrees in the main (from this point their statements differ), also quotes the *Śaunakagranthavistara* for the *Brahmavindu* No. 18, and the *śákhá Śaunakavartitá* for the *Átmopanishad* No. 28, as authority for these numbers, or places, of the two Upanishads. The Gopálatápaní, however, is marked by him as the forty-sixth '*Atharva-Paippale*,' and the Vásudevopanishad as the forty-ninth '*kshudragranthagane*;' see Rájendra Lála Mitra, *Notices of Sanskrit MSS.*, i. 18 (1870).