Excerpt from The Rise and Growth of Vedic Literature
Arising at a later and post-Baudd'a period, the Sutras were most likely intended to be an attempt to help the Brahmak'arin to again become master of the elaborate sacrificial ritual of the Veda which for centuries the reforming tendencies of Grautama's teaching had sought to destroy. However that may be, the inspiration of the Veda, the canon in the strict sense, is confined to Mantra and Brahmanam, constituting sruti, whilst the Sutras are only smrti.
Accordingly, every S'ak'a had its own Brahmanam, which in vid'i and art'avada contained the text-book of ritual, and in Vedanta (upanis'ad) that of dogma. The Upanis'ads are thus originally nothing more than the dogmatic text-books of single schools: hence, in so far as they are ancient, we can understand how they treat the same subject-matter more or less differently.
Yet, though the Upanis'ad is an appendix to the Brahmanam, it is usually preceded by an Aranjakam or forest-book, in which the former lies embedded.
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