An Early Upanisadic

Contents Preface ix Introduction 1 The Texts 25 I: The mystical significance of the sacrificial horse (B AU(M) 1:1) 27 II: A creation myth associated with the agnicayana and asvamedha (from BAU (M) 1:2) 28 III: Lead me from untruth (or non-being) to truth (or being)?(from BAU (M) 1:3) 29 IV: Another creation myth: The underlying oneness (BAU (M) 1:4) 29 V: A Brahmin turns to a ksatriya as teacher and the parable of the sleeping man (from BAU (M) 2:1) 33 VI: Yajnavalkya's and Maitreyi (BAU (M) 2:4) 34 VII: Yajnavalkya's disputations at the assembly of King Janaka, 1: The cows and the hotr Asvala (BAU (M) 3:1) 36 VIII: Yajnavalkya's disputation at the assembly of King Janaka, 2: Release from "re-death" (BAU (M) 3:3) 38 IX Yajnavalkya's disputations at the assembly of King Janaka, 3: Vacaknavi Gargi challenges Yajnavalkya (BAU (M) 3:9) 39 X: Yajnavalkya's disputations at the assembly of King Janaka, 4:Neti neti and Vidagdha Sakalya's head flies apart (from BAU (M) 3:9) 40 XI: The beginning of Svetaketu's instruction in the transcendental unity of everything (from ChU 6:1-2) 42 XII: The parables of the fig tree and of the salt, and (ChU 6:12 and 13) 43 XIII: The significance of (ChU 1:1 with parallels from the Jaiminiya-Jaiminikya-Upanisad and Aitareya-Brahmans and from the Taittiriya-Aranyaka) 44 1. Chandogya-Upanisad 1:1 44 2. Jaiminiya-Brahmana 3:321-322 45 3. Jaiminiya-Upanisad-Brahmana 1:1:1:1-5 and 3:4:5:6-7 45 4. Aitareya-Brahmana 5:31:1-2 46 5. Taittriya-Aranyaka 7:8:1 (Taittriya-Upanisad 1:8:1) 46 XIV: Mystical passages (BAU (M) 5:1 and 5:2) 46 XV: The significance of the Gayatri, and mystical knowledge saves even the sinner (from BAU (M) 5:15) 47 XVI: The dogs sacrifice: a satirical view of ritual (ChU 1:12) 48 XVII: Reincarnation and karman, 1: Two closely related passages from BAU (M) 6:1 and ChU 5:3-10 48 A: The Brhad-Aranyaka-Upanisad version 48 B: Selections from the Chandogya-Upanisad version 51 XVIII: Reincarnation and karman, 2: Selections from KU 1 53 XIX: Identification with a personal God and (BAU (K) 5:15 = VS (K) 40:1:15-18) 55 XX: Appendix: Related texts, mainly from earlier Vedic literature, with translations 56 A. Wedding mantras 56 1. Atharva-Veda 14:2:71 56 2. Asvalayana Grhaya-Sutra 1:7 (Lanman p.99, line 2-5) 56 3. Jaiminiya-Upanisad-Brahmana 1:17:1) 56 B. Ritual 'coupling' 57 1. An ordinary ritualist example (from SB (M) 1:1:1) 58 2. An interesting variant: The pairing of numbers (jaiminiya-Brahmana 2:291-292) 58 C. More on om and other 'ritual particles' 60 1. Some early uses of om 60 a. From Maitrayani-Samhita 4:9 and 1:4/4:1 60 b. From Aitareya-Brahmana 3:12:1-4 60 c. The "nyunkha", from Asvalayana-Srauta-Sutra 7:11:7 61 2. Some other ritual particles 61 3. Mystical speculations on some ritual particles I: 61 4. Mystical speculations on some ritual particles II. 63 D. The Gayatri or Savitri (from RV 3:62) 63 E. 'Lead me from untruth to truth?' 64 1. Rg.-Veda 7:59:12 64 2. Rg.-Veda 8:48:3 64 3. A ritualist passage (Maitrayani-Samhita 1:4:2) 65 4. Another riutalist passage (Satapatha-Brahmana (M) 1:1:1:4) 65 F. Rg-Vedic brahmodyas (from RV 1:164) 65 G. The Purusa-Sukta (RV 10:90) 67 H. Being and non-being 69 1. The nasadiya sukta (RV 10:129) 69 2. Asat:Sadjayat (from RV 10:72) 71 3. Asacha sacha(from RV 10:5) 72 I. Hiranyagarm and ka = Prajapati(from RV 10:121) 73 J. Ritualist passages connected with the agnicayana that "put it all together" (from Satapatha-Brahmana (M) 6 and 10) 74 K. A late upanisadic passage that "Puts it all together" (from Subala Upanisad 1-3) 78 Notes 81 General Notes 83 Notes for Selection I 88 Notes for Selection II 90 Notes for Selection III 92 Notes for Selection IV 92 Notes for Selection V 97 Notes for Selection VI 99 Notes for Selection VII 103 Notes for Selection VIII 105 Notes for Selection IX 106 Notes for Selection X 108 Notes for Selection XI 113 Notes for Selection XII 114 Notes for Selection XIII 116 Notes for Selection XIV 120 Notes for Selection XV 121 Notes for Selection XVI 122 Notes for Selection XVII:A 123 Notes for Selection XVII:B 128 Notes for Selection XVIII 131 Notes for Selection XIX 134 Notes for Selection XX 137 Glossary 141 References to Resources, Editions and Translations 185 Indices 193 General Index 195 Language and Grammar Index 201