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The System of the Vedanta According to Badarayana’s Brahma-Sutras and Cankara’s Commentary Thereon Set Forth as a Compendium of the Dogmatics of Brahmanism from the Standpoint of Cankara

1912

I was then as you remember in the Austrian Alps seeing amid the warm scented breath of the pine woods and the many-coloured beauty of the flowers to drive from my veins the lingering fever of the Ganges delta and steeping myself in the lore of the Eastern wisdom: the great Upanishads the Bhagavad Gitc2 the poems of Cahkara Master of Southern India. [...] Is he not the Guardian of the sacred waters who by his Commetaries has hemmed about against all impurities or Time's jealousy first the mountain tarns of the Upanishads then the serene forest lake of the Bhagavad Gitd and last the deep reservoir of the Sittras; adding from the generous riches of his wisdom lovely fountains and lakelets of his own the Crest Jewel the Awakening the Di [...] Thus we are acquainted with only two CI:11;1as of the Iligveda that of the Aitareyin's and that of the Kaushitakin's each of which possesses one Brethmanani and one Aranyaka»z the latter containing the Upanishad of the school.—For the Samaveda we know up to the present for the Brahmana section only one Cakha accurately and completely that of the Tdndin's to which belong the following writings [...] The former contains BrIthmana-like materials mingled with the Mantra's in the Sanahith; in this form the schools of the Taittiriyaka's (whose Brahmanam and Aranyakam are merely continuations of the Samhita) the Katha's and the Maitretyaniya's have handed the Yajurveda down to us. [...] In contrast to the CalthA's of the black Yajurveda the Vcijasaneyin's the chief school of the white Yajurveda separated the Mantra's and Bramana's after the manner of the remaiing Veda's; the former are collected in the Vajasaneyi-sahail the latter form the content of the Catapatha-brahmayam the concluding part (B.
philosophy religion
Pages
524
Published in
United States
SARF Document ID
sarf.144074
Segment Pages Author Actions
Frontmatter
i-xiv Paul Deussen view
Introduction
1-116 Paul Deussen view
The First Part of the Vedanta System: Theology or the Doctrine of Brahman
117-216 Paul Deussen view
The Second Part of the Vedanta System: Cosmology or the Doctrine of the World
217-282 Paul Deussen view
The Third Part of the Vedanta System: Psychology or the Doctrine of the Soul
283-354 Paul Deussen view
The Fourth Part of the Vedanta System: Samsara or the Doctrine of the Transmigration of the Soul
355-398 Paul Deussen view
The Fifth and Last Part of the Vedanta System: Monsha or the Teaching of Liberation
399-450 Paul Deussen view
Appendix
451-510 Paul Deussen view

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