Br_.ii.7.

1.] [Footnote 15: Here.4.8.19, Civa's names are Hara, Mrida, Carva, Civa, Bhava, Mah[=a]deva, Ugra, Bhima, Pacupati, Rudra, Cankara, Icana.] [Footnote 16: These rites are described in 6.4.24 of the _Brihad [=A]ranyaka Upanishad_ which consists both of metaphysics and of ceremonial rules.] [Footnote 17: Especially mentioned in the later Vasistha (see below); on _m[=i]m[=a]ms[=a]_ a branch of the Ved[=a]nta system see below.] [Footnote 18: The commentator here (19.

12, cited by Buehler) defines Ved[=a]nta as the part of the [=A]ranyakas which are not Upanishads, that is, apparently as a local 'Veda-end' (_veda-anta_), though this meaning is not admitted by some scholars, who will see in _anta_ only the meaning 'goal, aim.'] [Footnote 19: The Rudra (Civa) invocation at 26.

12 ff.

is interpolated, according to Buehler.] [Footnote 20: Here there is plainly an allusion to the two states of felicity of the Upanishads.