
Author: Robert E Hume
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Year: 2002
Language: English
Pages: 587
ISBN/UPC (if available): 0195637437
Description
This translation of the thirteen principal Upanishads was published more than a hundred years aago, and revised more than sixty years ago. It has long been recognised as a classic translatioln which provides a faithful rendering of the original Sanskrit into twentieth-century English.
This is an invaluable book for anyone interested in classical Indian thought, ancient Hinduism, and the sacred texts of Vedic Sanskrit.
THE TRANSLATOR:
Robert Earnest Hume was formerly Professor of the History of Religions, Union Theological Seminary, New York.
Contents
Preface
Remarks Concerning the Translation : Its Method and Arrangement
List of Abbreviations
CHAPTER I
An Outline 0f the Philosophy of the Upanishads
CHAPTER II
Brihad - Aranyaka Upanishad
CHAPTER III
Chandogya Upanishad
CHAPTER IV
Taittiriya Upanishad
CHAPTER V
Aitareya Upanishad
CHAPTER VI
Kaushitaki Upanishad
CHAPTER VII
Kena Upanishad
CHAPTER VIII
Katha Upanishad
CHAPTER IX
Isa Upanishad
CHAPTER X
Mundaka Upanishad
CHAPTER XI
Prasna Upanishad
CHAPTER XII
Mandukya Upanishad
CHAPTER XIII
Svetasvatara
CHAPTER XIV
Maitri Upanishad
A Bibliography of the Upanishad, Selected, Classified, and Annotated
Appendix : Recurrent and Parallel Passage in the Principal Upanishads and the Bhagavad - Gita, By Dr. George C. O. Haas
Sanskrit Index
General Index