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.
that the Sveta svatara-upanishad, or the Svetåsvataranám Mantropanishad, though bearing many notes of later periods of thought, is quoted by Sankara in his commentary on the Vedanta-sútras ? ; while the Nrisimhottaratâpaniyaupanishad forms part of the twelve Upanishads explained by Vidyaranya in his Sarvopanishad-arthânubhati-prakása. The Upanishads comprehended in that work are:
1. Aitareya-upanishad. 2. Taittiriya-upanishad. 3. Khândogya-upanishad. 4. Mundaka-upanishad. 5. Prasna-upanishad. 6. Kaushitaki-upanishad. 7. Maitrayanîya-upanishad. 8. Kathavalli-upanishad. 9. Svetâsvatara-upanishad. 10. Brihad-aranyaka-upanishad. 11. Talavakâra (Kena)-upanishad.
12. Nrisimhottaratâpanîya-upanishad. The number of Upanishads translated by Dara Shukoh amounts to 50; their number, as given in the Mahavákyamuktavali and in the Muktika-upanishad, is 1083 Professor Weber thinks that their number, so far as we know at present, may be reckoned at 2354 In order, however, to arrive at so high a number, every title of an Upanishad would have to be counted separately, while in several cases it is clearly the same Upanishad which is quoted under different names. In an alphabetical list which I published in 1865 (Zeitschrift der Deutschen Morgenländischen Gesellschaft XIX, 137–158), the number of real Upanishads reached 149. To that number Dr. Burnello in his Catalogue
i Vedanta-sutras I, 1, 11.
* One misses the iså or Isâvâsya-upanishad in this list. The Upanishads chiefly studied in Bengal are the Brihad-aranyaka, Aitareya, Khándogya, Taitti. Mya, Isa, Kena, Kasha, Prasna, Mundaka, and Måndükya, to which should be added the Svetåsvatar. M.M., History of Ancient Sanskrit Literature, p. 325.
Dr. Barnell thinks that this is an artificial computation, 108 being a sacred number in Southern India. See Kielhorn in Gough's Papers on Ancient Sanskrit Literature, p. 193. . • Weber, History of Sanskrit Literature, p. 155 note.
Lidian Antiquary, II, 367.
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