Dhammapada

SR No.: 007674
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: Max Muller
Publisher: Oxford
Publication Year: 1881
Total Pages: 2540
Language: English
Classification: Book_English
File Size: 45 MB

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UPANISHADS.
Sikshâ-vallî, the Brahmânanda-vallî, and the Bhrigu-vallil. Properly, however, it is only the second Anuvâka of the seventh Prapâthaka which deserves and receives in the text itself the name of Sikshådhyâya, while the rest of the first Vallî ought to go by the name of Samhitâ-upanishad?, or Samhitî-upanishad.
Sâyana 3, in his commentary on the Taittirîya-âranyaka, explains the seventh chapter, the Sikshâdhyâya (twelve anuvâkas), as Samhitî-upanishad. His commentary, however, is called Siksha-bhâshya. The same Sâyana treats the eighth and ninth Prapathakas as the Vâruny-upanishad 4.
The Ananda-vallî and Bhrigu-vallî are quoted among the Upanishads of the Atharvana.
At the end of each Vallî there is an index of the Ånuvâkas which it contains. That at the end of the first Valli is intelligible. It gives the Pratîkas, i.e the initial words, of each Anuvâka, and states their number as twelve. At the end of the first Anuvâka, we have the final words 'satyam vadishyâmi,' and pañka ka, i. e. five short paragraphs at the end. At the end of the second Anuvâka, where we expect the final words, we have the initial, i. e, sîkshâm, and then pañka, i. e. five sections in the Anuvâka. At the end of the third Anuvâka, we have the final words, but no number of sections. At the end of the fourth Anuvâka, we have the final words of the three sections, followed by one paragraph; at the end of the fifth Anuvâka, three final words, and two paragraphs, though the first paragraph belongs clearly to the third section. In the sixth Anuvâka, we have the final words of the two Anuvâkas, and one paragraph. In the seventh Anuvâka, there is the final word
The third Vallî ends with Bhrigur ity upanishat. ? See Taittiriyaka-upanishad, ed. Roer, p. 12. 8 See M. M., Alphabetisches Verzeichniss der Upanishads, p. 144.
• The Anukramani of the Atreyî school (see Weber, Indische Studien, II, p. 208) of the Taittiriyaka gives likewise the name of Vâruni to the eighth and ninth Prapathaka, while it calls the seventh Prapathaka the Sâmbiti, and the tenth Prapathaka the Yagniki-upanishad. That Anukramant presupposes, however, a different text, as may be seen both from the number of Anuvâkas, and from the position assigned to the Yâgñiki as between the Sâmbiti and Varuni Upanishads.
* See M.M., Alphabetisches Verzeichniss der Upanishads.
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