Upnishad

SR No.: 007670
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: Max Muller
Publisher: Oxford
Publication Year: 1879
Total Pages: 1835
Language: English
Classification: Book_English
File Size: 35 MB

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UPANISHADS.
possessed one gloss by Narayanendra on Sankara's commentary, and another by Ånandatîrtha on a different gloss for the entire Upanishad. The gloss by Narayanendra', however, is, so Dr. Rost informs me, the same as that of Ånandagñana, while, so far as I can see, the gloss contained in MS. E. I. H. 2386 (also MS. Wilson 401), to which Colebrooke refers, is not a gloss by Ånandatîrtha at all, but a gloss by Visvesvaratirtha on a commentary by Ånandatirthabhagavatpádákarya, also called Parnapragñakarya, who explained the whole of the Mahaitareya-upanishad from a Vaishnava point of view.
IV.
THE KAUSHITAKI-BRÅHMANA-UPANISHAD.
THE Kaushitaki-upanishad, or, as it is more properly called, the Kaushîtaki-brahmana-upanishad, belongs, like the Aitareya-upanishad, to the followers of the Rig-veda. It was translated into Persian under the title of Kokhenk, and has been published in the Bibliotheca Indica with Sankaränanda's commentary and an excellent translation by Professor Cowell.
Though it is called the Kaushitaki-brahmana-upanishad, it does not form part of the Kaushitaki-brahmana in 30 adhyâyas which we possess, and we must therefore account for its name by admitting that the Aranyaka, of which it formed a portion, could be reckoned as part of the Brahmana literature of the Rig-veda (see Aitareya-aranyaka, Introduction, p. xcii), and that hence the Upanishad might be called the Upanishad of the Brâhmana of the Kaush?takins.
From a commentary discovered by Professor Cowell it appears that the four adhyâyas of this Upanishad
"A MS. in the Notices of Sanskrit MSS., vol. ii, p. 133, ascribed to Abhi. navanarayanendra, called Åtmashakabhåshyarika, begins like the gloss edited by Dr. Röer, and ends like Såyana's commentary on the seventh adhyâya, as edited by Rajendralal Mitra. The same name is given in MS. Wilson 94, Srimatkaivalyeridrasarasvatfpügyapâdasishya-stimadabhinavanârâyanendrasarasvati.
A Maha-kaushitaki-brihmana is quoted, but has not yet been met with.
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