Speculations on literature are a persistent theme of Indian literary history from its earliest beginnings. The Brahmanical literature may be seen as the exegesis of the Vedic samhitd, particularly the Rk, once the latter had been canonically fixed in the context of the sacrificial performance. The earliest wpanisads present themselves as 'secret' expositions of the purport of certain well-established ritual acts, as codified and rationalized in the brahmana texts. We know how remarkably seminal the wpanisads have been in provoking the most diverse interpretations by later Indian philosophers, who sought once again to "reveal" the sense of those texts in the context of novel religious and social phenomena.
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