[Footnote 171:  Some allusions in the older Upanishads point to this district rather than the Ganges Valley as the centre of Brahmanic philosophy.  Thus the Brihad-Aranyaka speaks familiarly of Gandhara.]

[Footnote 172:  Cat.  Adyar Library.  The Rig and Sama Vedas have two Upanishads each, the Yajur Veda seven.  All the others are described as belonging to the Atharva Veda.  They have no real connection with it, but it was possible to add to the literature of the Atharva whereas it was hardly possible to make similar additions to the older Vedas.]

[Footnote 173:  Debendranath Tagore composed a work which he called the Brahmi Upanishad in 1848.  See Autobiography, p. 170.  The sectarian Upanishads are of doubtful date, but many were written between 400 and 1200 A.D. and were due to the desire of new sects to connect their worship with the Veda.  Several are Saktist (e.g.  Kaula, Tripura, Devi) and many others show Saktist influence.  They usually advocate the worship of a special deity such as Ganesa, Surya, Rama, Nri Simha.]

[Footnote 174:  Br.-Aran.  VI. 1, Ait.  Aran.  II. 4, Kaush.  III. 3, Prasna, II. 3, Chand.  V. 1.  The apologue is curiously like in form to the classical fable of the belly and members.]

[Footnote 175:  Br.-Aran.  VI. 2, Chand.  V. 3]

[Footnote 176:  Br.-Aran.  II. 1, Kaush.  IV. 2.]

[Footnote 177:  The composite structure of these works is illustrated very clearly by the Brihad-Aranyaka.  It consists of three sections each concluding with a list of teachers, namely (a) adhyayas 1 and 2, (b) adh. 3 and 4, (c) adh. 5 and 6.  The lists are not quite the same, which indicates some slight difference between the sub-schools which composed the three parts, and a lengthy passage occurs twice in an almost identical form.  The Upanishad is clearly composed of two separate collections with the addition of a third which still bears the title of Khila or supplement.  The whole work exists in two recensions.]

[Footnote 178:  The Eleven translated in the Sacred Books of the East, vols.  I and XV, include the oldest and most important.]

[Footnote 179:  Thus the Aitareya Brahmana is followed by the Aitareya Aranyaka and that by the Aitareya-Aranyaka-Upanishad.]

[Footnote 180:  R.V.  X. 121.  The verses are also found in the Atharva Veda, the Vajasaneyi, Taittiriya, Maitrayani, and Kathaka Samhitas and elsewhere.]

[Footnote 181:  R.V.  X. 129.]

[Footnote 182:  IV. 5. 5 and repeated almost verbally II. 4. 5 with some omissions.  My quotation is somewhat abbreviated and repetitions are omitted.]

[Footnote 183:  The sentiment is perhaps the same as that underlying the words attributed to Florence Nightingale:  “I must strive to see only God in my friends and God in my cats.”]

[Footnote 184:  It will be observed that he had said previously that the Atman must be seen, heard, perceived and known.  This is an inconsistent use of language.]