Dharmakosa Upanisatkanda: A Voluminous Encyclopedia of the Upanishads (Sanskrit Only in Four Volumes)- A Rare and Old Book

Language: Sanskrit Only
Pages: 2140


Vol. I





Preface

THE UPANISATKANDA has been divided into four parts. The first part contains a selection of texts from the pre——Upanisadic literature, which may be regarded as the fountain—head of the philosophical speculations of the Upanisads. In this part all those Vedic texts which contain material for the study of the origin and development of ideas of value and philosophic significance in the Upanisads have been collected together and, after having been classified under several captions according to the subject matter, have been embodied into a volume entitled Mantra-Brahmana-Upanisad. The second and third parts contain mostly those Upanisads passages from which have been quoted in the Bhasyas of Samkara, Ramanuja and other commentators as texts referred to by Badarayana in his Brahmasutras, together with extracts from the various commentaries on them. The following nineteen Upanisads have been selected; (1) Aitareya, (2) Kausitaki, (3) Taittiriya, (4) Chandogya, (5) Brhadaranyaka, (6) Isa, (7) Kena, (8) Katha, (9) Mundaka, (10) Prasna, (11) Mandukya, (12) Sivasamkalpa, (13) Svetasvatara, (14) Mahanarayana, (15) Jabala,(16) Maitrayani, (17) Kaivalya, (18) Atharvasiras and (19) Atharvasikha. Of this Nos. 11, 12 and 16, although they do not figure in the Brahmasutras as the subject-matter of any topic of discussion, have been selected because, rightly or wrongly, they have been looked upon as old Upanisads. The old age of Sivasamkalpa is beyond doubt, as six verses from it appear in the Yajurveda and as the whole of it, with some v.ls. Appears among the Khila Suktas of the Rgveda. The fourth Part contains an alphabetical list of the Vedic and Upanisadic passages, quoted in the first three parts. It also contains a glossary of important words with English equivalents and an alphabetical index of t