prapathaka
प्रपाठक prapāṭhakaA major division or "reading" of a Vedic text; the Chandogya Upanishad is arranged in eight prapathakas.
Where this term appears
- The Chandogya Upanishad: that you are Treatise
… It belongs to the Sama Veda, the Veda of chant, and it carries eight prapathakas of prose, arranged outward-in: from sound, to the meditations of the cosmos, to the persons and their stories, to being itself, …
- The Taittiriya Upanishad: the ladder of selves, from food to bliss Treatise
It forms prapathakas seven to nine of the Taittiriya Aranyaka, the "forest text" of that school (Müller, SBE 15, intro pp.