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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INTRODUCTION.
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were followed by five other adhyâyas, answering, so far as we can judge from a few extracts, to some of the adhyâyas of the Aitareya-aranyaka, while an imperfect MS. of an Aranyaka in the Royal Library at Berlin (Weber, Catalogue, p. 20) begins, like the Aitareya-aranyaka, with a description of the Mahavrata, followed by discussions on the uktha in the second adhyaya; and then proceeds in the third adhyâya to give the story of Kitra Gângyâyani in the same words as the Kaushitaki-upanishad in the first adhyâya. Other MSS. again adopt different divisions. In one MS. of the commentary (MS. A), the four adhyayas of the Upanishad are counted as sixth, seventh, eighth, and ninth (ending with ityåranyake navamo 'dhyâyah); in another (MS. P) the third and fourth adhyâyas of the Upanishad are quoted as the fifth and sixth of the Kaushîtakyâranyaka, possibly agreeing therefore, to a certain extent, with the Berlin MS. In a MS. of the Sankhayana Aranyaka in the Royal Library at Berlin, there are 15 adhyâyas, 1 and 2 corresponding to Ait. År. I and 5: 3-6 containing the Kaushitaki-upanishad; 7 and 8 corresponding to Ait. År. 3? Poley seems to have known a MS, in which the four adhyâyas of the Upanishad formed the first, seventh, eighth, and ninth adhyâyas of a Kaushitaki-brahmana.
As there were various recensions of the Kaushîtaki-brâhmana (the Sankhâyana, Kauthuma, &c.), the Upanishad also exists in at least two texts. The commentator, in some of its MSS., refers to the various readings of the Sakhâs, explaining them, whenever there seems to be occasion for it. I have generally followed the text which is presupposed by Sankarananda's Dîpikâ, and contained in MSS. F, G (Cowell, Preface, p. v), so far as regards the third and fourth adhyâyas. According to Professor Cowell, Vidyaranya in his Sarvopanishadarthânubhatiprakasa followed the text of the commentary, while Sankarákarya, if we may trust to extracts in his commentary on the Vedânta-sútras, followed the other text, contained in MS. A (Cowell, Preface, p. v).
See Weber, History of Sanskrit Literature, p. 50.
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