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  1. One of a collection of Hindu sacred
  2. treatises, written in Sanskrit, connected
  3. with the Vedas but composed later, about
  4. 800-200 BC. Metaphysical and ethical, their
  5. doctrine equated the atman (self) with the
  6. Brahman (supreme spirit) - `Tat tvam asi'
  7. (`Thou art that' - and developed the theory
  8. of the transmigration of souls.
  9.