Text and Authority in the Older Upaniṣads
✍ Scribed by Signe Cohen
- Publisher
- BRILL
- Year
- 2008
- Tongue
- English
- Leaves
- 330
- Series
- Brill's Indological Library
- Edition
- 1
- Category
- Library
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
✦ Synopsis
This book offers a new interpretation of the older Upaniṣads. Issues of textual authority in the Upaniṣads are examined, and the book also outlines a theory of textual criticism as applied to oral texts.
✦ Subjects
HIS003000; HIS026000
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