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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

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✦ 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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