Whether the law-giver believes that the spirit will be united with Brahm[=a] or simply live in his heaven he does not say.] [Footnote 21: Gautama, too, is probably a Northerner.

The S[=u]tra, it should be observed, are not so individual as would be implied by the name of the teachers to whom they are credited.

They were each texts of a school, _carana_, but they are attributed uniformly to a special teacher, who represents the _cara[n.]a_, as has been shown by Mueller.

For what is known in regard to the early 'S[=u]tra-makers' see Buehler's introductions to volumes ii.

and xiv.