The History of Indian Literature c8.476

c8.476

∗ In the colophons, at least, it is once so described; by Śaṃkara, too, at the beginning of his commentary, it is called *bráhmaṇa*, although this proves but little, since with him all the Upanishads he comments pass as *śruti* and *bráhmaṇa*.—The name Pippaláda is probably to be traced to the conception found in the first verse of the Muṇḍaka iii. 1 (taken from Ṛik *maṇḍ.* i. 164. 20) (?). The same verse recurs in the Śvetávśataropanishad iv. 6 and in Nir xiv. 30.