Format:
1 Online-Ressource (ix, 320 pages)
ISBN:
9789047433637
Series Statement:
Brill's Indological library volume 30
Uniform Title:
The relative chronology of the older Upaniṣads - a metrical and linguistic approach
Content:
Preliminary Materials /S. Cohen -- Introduction /S. Cohen -- Chapter One. Textual Criticism And Mnemonic Texts /S. Cohen -- Chapter Two. Philosophical And Religious Themesin The Upaniṣads /S. Cohen -- Chapter Three. The Bṛhadāraṇyaka Upaniṣad /S. Cohen -- Chapter Four. The Chāndogya Upaniṣad /S. Cohen -- Chapter Five. The Aitareya Upaniṣad /S. Cohen -- Chapter Six. The Kauṣītaki Upaniṣad /S. Cohen -- Chapter Seven. The Taittirīya Upaniṣad /S. Cohen -- Chapter Eight. The Īśā Upaniṣad /S. Cohen -- Chapter Nine. The Praśna Upaniṣad /S. Cohen -- Chapter Ten. The Muṇḍaka Upaniṣad /S. Cohen -- Chapter Eleven. The Kaṭha Upaniṣad /S. Cohen -- Chapter Twelve. The Śvetāśvatara Upaniṣad /S. Cohen -- Chapter Thirteen. The Kena Upaniṣad /S. Cohen -- Chapter Fourteen. The Maitrī Upaniṣad /S. Cohen -- Chapter Fifteen. The Māṇḍūkya Upaniṣad /S. Cohen -- Chapter Sixteen. The Mahānārāyaṇa Upaniṣad /S. Cohen -- Chapter Seven. Teenthe Kaivalya Upaniṣad /S. Cohen -- Chapter Eighteen. The Bāṣkalamantra Upaniṣad /S. Cohen -- Conclusion /S. Cohen -- Bibliography /S. Cohen -- Index /S. Cohen.
Content:
The Upaniṣads have often been treated as a unified corpus of religious and philosophical texts, separate from the older Vedic tradition. It is well known that the Upaniṣads were initially composed and transmitted within specific schools of Vedic recitation, or Śākhās, but the Śākhā affiliation of each Upaniṣad has received very little attention in the scholarly literature. The author offers a new interpretation of the older Upaniṣads in the light of the Vedic school affiliations of each text. This book argues that issues of textual authority, and in particular the authority of the various Vedic schools, are central in the Upaniṣads, and that the Upaniṣads can, on one level, be read as texts about text. While analyzing the theme of textual authority in the Upaniṣads, the author also outlines a theory of textual criticism as applied to orally transmitted texts that will be of use to textual scholars in other fields as well
Note:
Includes bibliographical references (p. 297-312) and index
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Dissertation University of Pennsylvania 1999
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9789004167773
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9004167773
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Cohen, Signe Text and authority in the older Upaniṣads Leiden [u.a.] : Brill, 2008 ISBN 9789004167773
Language:
English
Subjects:
Comparative Studies. Non-European Languages/Literatures
Keywords:
Upanishaden
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Hochschulschrift
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