Vedic Index of Names and Subjects v2.c4.s7.1380

v2.c4.s7.1380

Vyā-khyāna in one passage of the Satapatha Brāhmaṇa¹ clearly denotes a ‘narrative’ merely—viz., that of the dispute of Kadrū and Suparṇī. In other passages² the word means simply ‘commentary.’ In the Bṛhadāraṇyaka Upaniṣad,³ used in the plural, it signifies a species of writing, apparently ‘commentaries,’ though its exact relation to Anuvyākhyāna must remain obscure. Sieg⁴ thinks that the Vyākhyānas were forms of narrative like Anvākhyāna and Anuvyākhyāna.