Ancient Indian Education (Brahmanical and Buddhist) c11.s6.12

c11.s6.12

Keith [*Ait. Ār.*, p. 15], however, holds this view as far-fetched, for originally the *Āraṇyaka* was meant to give secret explanations of the ritual and hence presupposed that the ritual was still in use and known. The tendency was of course for the secret explanation to grow independent of the ritual until the stage is reached where the Āraṇyaka passes into the Upanishad, and, by that time too, there grew up the order of dividing the life of the Hindu into the four stages or Āśramas.