Upnishad Vakya Mahakosha Part 2

SR No.: 016084
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: Gajanand S Sadhale
Publisher: Rupa Books Jaipur
Publication Year: 1991
Total Pages: 384
Language: Sanskrit
Classification: Dictionary & Dictionary
File Size: 22 MB

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PREFACE It gives me great pleasure to be able to publish the second Volume of the Upanishad-vakya-maha-kosha and put it before the Sanskrit knowing public, in such a short time. After publishing the first part, I have found some 15 more Upanishads, and I have made useful additions by selecting principle sentences from tbem in this volume. They are given as an appendix at the end of this work. Many useful suggestions have been made to me by learned men, friends and well wishers, and I am thankful for them to all. If God grants me still longer life, strength, and clear intellegence to work and means to publish, I hops to carry them out and put into print. Upto now collections of 108 Upanishads have been published by different booksellers, but some of them are very incorrect. The total number of Upanishads found and studiel by me is 239; hence there are 130 more Upanishads which are not printed together in one neat volume. A few of these hitherto little known Upanishads have been published by different men and publishers, but are not available to all desirous of reading them. I therefore hopo to publish them all. A selected anthology of some of the best passages (Enfan) of Upanishads is also prepared by me, and a short word index arranged according to Vedantic divisions of subjects is being prepared by me. To publish all these require financial help from the public interested in this sort of work. By the grace of God who always fulfills the good desires of His devotees, I hope to publish them all one by one i. e. first the collection of 239 Upanishads, the selection of best paysages from the Upanishads (उपनियत्सूक्तिमुक्ताहारः) and a word index called उपनिषद्विषमEus: The subject matter of all these Upanishads is vast and varied, and it is not therefor necessary here to discuss it. In preparing this work, my collaborator Shastri Balkrishna Bhasker Vaidya and Shastri Vidyalankar Anant Yagoeshwar Dhupkar have laid me under obligation by helping me in many ways and so also I am indebted to all those who have very kindly and sympathetically reviewed the first Vol. of this work. I thank them all. Lastly but not the least I, as well as the Sanskrit loving public, are deeply under obligation for the kind patronage and the financial help given to me by the present rulər of Baroda, viz. His Highness Maharaja Shree Pratapsinh; and the encouragement given by the University of Bombay can never be forgotten by me. With fervent devotion in God Anant, I offer this fruit of my labour at His lotus feet, so that this work may be useful and beneficial to all those lovers of Aupanishadic Lore.
Bombay 10th day of the bright Ashwin V. S. 1997 Vijaya-dashami
80-9-1941.
Gajanan Shambhu Sad hiale