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The Atharvanikas have 'He who knows, shaking off good and evil, free from passion, reaches the highest oneness. The Satyayanins have 'His sons obtain his inheritance, his friends the good, his enemies the evil he has done. The Kaushitakins 'He shakes off his good and his evil deeds.

A clause in the text of the Satyayanins, 'the kusas are the children of the udumbara tree, forms a defining supplement to a more general statement in the text of the Kaushitakins, 'the kusas are the children of the tree. The clause, 'the metres of the gods are prior, defines the order of the metres which in other texts mentioning 'the metres of the gods and Asuras' had been left undefined, and therefore forms a supplement to those texts.

The text of the Atharvanikas exhibits at the beginning of their Upanishad some mantras, 'Pierce the sukra, pierce the heart. The followers of the Sama-veda read at the beginning of their rahasya- brahmana 'O God Savitri, promote the sacrifice. The Kathakas and the Taittiriyakas have 'May Mitra be propitious to us, may Varuna be propitious. The Satyayanins have 'Thou art a white horse, a tawny and a black one! The Kaushitakins have a Brahmana referring to the Mahavrata- ceremony, 'Indra having slain Vritra became great. The Kaushitakins also have a Mahavrata-brahmana.