Ancient Indian Education (Brahmanical and Buddhist) c11.s5.20

c11.s5.20

¹ The Gandhāras in the north-west will have to be regarded also as standing outside the pale of Vedic culture, despite the reference to Gandhāra in the *Chhāndogya Upanishad* [vi, 14], which proves, according to Oldenberg, neither the northern origin of its compiler, nor the antiquity of the text, as supposed by Max Müller, but rather the contrary, as will appear from the context and contents of the passage where there is a comparison of a man who is led (*āntya*) away by the Gandhāras with closed eyes and who then inquires his way back from village to village. Thus in the passage the Gandhāras are made to reside the farther from the land where the statement of the passage may have been made.