Upanishad Bhashyam Vol. 1 (उपनिषद्भाष्यम् प्रथम भाग)

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उपनिषद्भाष्यम् प्रथम भाग (Upanishad Bhashyam Vol. 1) This volume contains the first eight Upanisads with Srı Sańkarācārya’s Bhāsyas and all the available tikäs thereon. In our search for unpublished Bhāsya-tikās we came across Anubhūtiswarūpācārya’s gloss on Agamaśāstra Bhāşya and Narendrapuri’s gloss on Cändogyabhāşya in the Govt. Oriental Library, Madras. These were found very ancient and scholarly and so we determined to publish them in our edition. Anubhūtiswarūpācārya was a teacher of Anandagiri as shown by himself in his Tatvaloka, written in his former äśram, Narendrapuri’s commentry is also very scholarly though brief. It will be published in the next volume, Gopala tika on Katha, Vanamälä and Taittiriya Vartika, tikās on Taittiriya-Bhāşya are reprints. We have published the Värtika also along with the Bhasya to help pasdits and scholars who are in pursuit of allround knowledge in the subject. This edition is based upon manu scripts of Bhāsyas and tikās preserved in Dakşiņāmürti Matha, Varanasi in addition to the printed texts of Anandāsram.

Very good and appropriate readings were found in these manuscripts and they have been incorporated in the texts of Bhāsya and Anandagiri. Another interesting freature in this edition is that we have analysed in the notes the views of Dwaitins and Visięțadvaitins in the subject, in our endeavour to make a comparative study of the three schools of philosophy. Our thanks are due to the Curator, Oriental Mss. Library Madras for allowing us to get copies of the manuscripts in their possession. Saradananda Sastri and Sri Vamsapatı Dwivedi Śastri are to be highly congratulated for helping us to edit and also getting the book printed without delay.