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¹ *Cf. Oldenberg*, Die Hymnen des Rigveda, I, Berlin, 1888, p. 291 and NGGW., 1915, 382 ff. Rāmānuja (SBE., Vol. 48, p. 645) states that certain mantras and sacrificial rites are discussed at the beginning of Upaniṣads "owing to their having, like the latter, to be studied in the forest." In the Āruṇi-Upaniṣad, 2 (The Minor Upaniṣads, ed. F. O. Schrader, I, p. 7; *Deussen*, Sechzig Upanishads des Veda, p. 693) it is said that the hermit should study of all the Vedas only the Āraṇyaka and the Upaniṣad. Manu, VI, 29, says that the hermit should learn "the Upaniṣad texts" (aupaniṣadīḥ śrutīḥ). Strict rules of austerity are prescribed at the reading of the Upaniṣads, s. Baudhāyana-Dharmaśāstra, II, 10, 18, 15 ff. *Cf.* also *Max Müller*, History of Ancient Sanskrit Literature, pp. 313 ff.