It is intended to be a summary of the teaching of the Upanishads. It is also called Uttara-Mimāṃsā or the investigation of the later part of the Vedas, as distinguished from the Mimāṃsā of the earlier part of the Vedas and the Brahmanas which deal with ritual or karma-kānda. It is an attempt to systematise the various strands of the Upanishads which form the background of the orthodox systems of thought. The Brahma sūtra is an early exposition of the Vedanta-interpretation of the Upanishads. The Brahma sūtras (Sanskrit: ब्रह्म सूत्र), also known as the Vedānta Sūtras (वेदान्त सूत्र), are one of the three canonical texts of the Vedānta school of Hindu philosophy.
