Vinaya Texts

SR No.: 007684
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: T W Rhys Davids, Hermann Oldenberg
Publisher: Oxford
Publication Year: 1881
Total Pages: 2523
Language: English
Classification: Book_English
File Size: 47 MB

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INTRODUCTION.
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meaning an instrument for removing illusion and error. The title is all the more strange because Mundaka, in its commonest acceptation, is used as a term of reproach for Buddhist mendicants, who are called Shavelings,' in opposition to the Brâhmans, who dress their hair carefully, and often display by its peculiar arrangement either their family or their rank. Many doctrines of the Upanishads are, no doubt, pure Buddhism, or rather Buddhism is on many points the consistent carrying out of the principles laid down in the Upanishads. Yet, for that very reason, it seems impossible that this should be the origin of the name, unless we suppose that it was the work of a man who was, in one sense, a Mundaka, and yet faithful to the Brahmanic law.
III.
THE TAITTIRIYAKA-UPANISHAD. THE Taittirîyaka-upanishad seems to have had its original place in the Taittirîya-Aranyaka. This Åranyaka consists, as Rajendralal Mitra has shown in the Introduction to his edition of the work in the Bibliotheca Indica, of three portions. Out of its ten Prapathakas, the first six form the Åranyaka proper, or the Karma-kânda, as Sâyana writes. Then follow Prapathakas VII, VIII, and IX, forming the Taittirîyaka-upanishad; and lastly, the tenth Prapathaka, the Yågñikî or Mahânârâyana - upanishad, which is called a Khila, and was therefore considered by the Brâhmans themselves as a later and supplementary work.
Sarkara, in his commentary on the Taittirîyaka-upanishad, divides his work into three Adhyâyas, and calls the first Siksha-vallî, the second the Brahmananda-vallî, while he gives no special name to the Upanishad explained in the third Adhyâya. This, however, may be due to a mere accident, for whenever the division of the Taittirîyaka-upanishad into Vallîs is mentioned, we always have three?, the
1 Sankara (ed. Roer, p. 141) himself speaks of two Vallîs, teaching the paramâtmagnâna (the Sikshâ-vallî has nothing to do with this), and Anquetil has Anandbli- Ânanda-valli, and Bharkbli=Bhrigu-valli.
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