Text and authority in the older Upaniṣads [electronic resource] / by Signe Cohen.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Cohen, Signe.

Series:

Brill's Indological library ; v. 30.

Brill's Indological library, 0925-2916 ; v. 30

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Upanishads--Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Upanishads.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (330 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2008.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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.

Contents:

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.

Notes:

Based on the author's dissertation (University of Pennsylvania).

Includes bibliographical references (p. [297]-312) and index.

ISBN:

1-283-06102-3

9786613061027

90-474-3363-7

OCLC:

711004352

Publisher Number:

10.1163/ej.9789004167773.i-320 DOI