Introduction : 9.

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The "Isavasya Upanishad" is the last chapter of the "Sukla-Yajur-Veda Samhita," and since it is found as an integral part of a definite and known Samhita, this Upanishad is sometimes called the "Samhitopanishad."

The Upanishad declarations, when they are in metrical form, are called "Mantras", and versified Upanishads are called "Mantropanishads."  

'Isavasya' is one of the most prominent and beautiful, even unparalleled  ' Mantropanishad' known to us today.



"Isavasyopanishad" had two recensions : 'Kanva' and 'Madhyandina.' 

The former recension has the entire  eighteen Mantra-s as the text stands now, but in the Madhyandina, the fifteenth Mantram here is the concluding Mantram : " The face of Truth is covered by the disc of gold."

" O  Nourisher! O Sustainer!  unveil this so that I, "Satyadharma", may enjoy the VISION,"

"Ubbatacarya Batta," the famous author of a gloss on the "Sukla-Yajur-Veda, considers the above quoted as the concluding Mantram of this Upanishad.

However, we find that in the "Brahma Sutras", Vyasa Maharishi refers to both the recensions and gives equal authority  to both of them. 

To be continued ...