Prabuddha Bharata or Awakened India

The Vaishnava books contain a beautiful saying : The mercy of all the three the guru Krishna and the devotee of God was there but without the mercy of one (i.e. [...] Heroic attempts were no doubt made as under Harsha and the Pratiharas the Chalukyas and the Rashtrakutas the Pallavas and the Pales and finally under the various Rajput kingdoms which arose on the ruins of the ancient empires to reconstruct something in the likeness of the vanished State of the Mauryas and the Guptas. [...] Heroic attempts were no doubt made as under Harsha and the Pratiharas the Chalukyas and the Rashtrakutas the Pallavas and the Pales and finally under the various Rajput kingdoms which arose on the ruins of the ancient empires to reconstruct something in the likeness of the vanished State of the Mauryas and the Guptas. [...] With the disappearance of many of the recensions of the Vedas many Brahmancts Aranyakas and Upanishads also disappeared.' The fact that the sacred hooks 1 The Rig-Veda is said to have existed in twenty-one recensions the Yajur-Veda in'a hundred the Sama-Veda in a thousand and the Atharva-Veda in nine. [...] Among these the Aitareya Upanishad and Kaushitaki Upanishad belong to the Rig-Veda ; the Chhandogya and Kena to the Sama-Veda ; the Taittiriya Mahanaryana Katha Svetashvatara and Maitrayani to the Blaok Yajur-Veda ; the Isa and Brihadaranyaka to the White Yajur-Veda ; and the Mundaka Prashna and Mandukya to the Atharva-Veda.