Dear Professor Olivelle, 

At long last I am getting around to finishing a paper on the Bṛhadāraṇyaka. I can't tell you how many times a week I bless you and thank you for the enormous work you have done in translating, introducing and annotating the early Upaniṣads. There are many things one couldn't even begin to do with several major texts if you hadn't laid the foundations with your painstaking scholarship. 

As for MLBD and MRML, they have freely printed, published, cut and pasted Indological works originally available in non-Indian editions for so long that I don't think anyone notices, cares or minds any more, not even the authors or whoever the original holders of copyright. If it didn't incense our videshi colleagues so much, I guess it could be argued that it is merely the age-old practice of dispensing with attribution, continued through modern means! 

Warm regards,

Ananya. 

     



On Fri, Apr 21, 2023 at 8:38 PM Patrick Olivelle via INDOLOGY <indology@list.indology.info> wrote:
Well, it is complicated. They ordered 150 or so copies from OUP, and then changed the title pages!! An old fashioned cut and paste job.



On Apr 21, 2023, at 10:03 AM, Dominik Wujastyk via INDOLOGY <indology@list.indology.info> wrote:

I'm really shocked to hear this.  I thought Munshiram were okay.

On Thu, 20 Apr 2023 at 15:35, Patrick Olivelle via INDOLOGY <indology@list.indology.info> wrote:
Actually it was published by Oxford University Press. Munshiram is a plagiarized version.




On Apr 20, 2023, at 4:04 PM, Eric Moses Gurevitch via INDOLOGY <indology@list.indology.info> wrote:

Hello Gleb,

To add to the already-mentioned resources, depending on your student's level of proficiency, Patrick Olivelle's 1998 The Early Upaniṣads, published with Munshiram Manoharlal Publishers, gives the Sanskrit text with page-facing English translations. It is quite navigable.

Take care,
Eric

On Thu, Apr 20, 2023 at 3:53 PM Tejas Aralere via INDOLOGY <indology@list.indology.info> wrote:
I was trying to find Hock’s text’s name and was beat to it! It’s a great reader. 

-Tejas

On Thu, Apr 20, 2023 at 9:45 PM Dominik Wujastyk via INDOLOGY <indology@list.indology.info> wrote:
I suggest
  • Hock, H. H. (2006) An Early Upanishadic Reader: With Notes, Glossary, and an Appendix of Related Vedic Texts. Delhi: Motilal Banarsidass Publishers.
perhaps combined with
  • Cohen, S., ed. (2017) The Upanisads. A Complete Guide. Abingdon: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
DW

On Thu, 20 Apr 2023 at 12:02, Gleb Sharygin via INDOLOGY <indology@list.indology.info> wrote:
Dear colleagues,

A student of mine asks whether there exists a user-friendly reader with literal (interlinear) word-to-word 
translations, which engages the texts of the early Upaniṣads in the way the new Pāli reader of Bhikkhu Bodhi 
(2020) engages the Pāli texts.

I was able to suggest only the ISKCON version of the Īśopaniṣad and An Early Upaniṣadic Reader (2007) by 
Hans Heinrich Hock (the latter publication is very close to what my student expects, but it places the glossary (or 
vocabulary) at the end of the book, making it harder for a beginner to use, and the translations are not literal). 

Are there other similar readers?

--

With kind regards (mettāya),

Gleb Sharygin, Dr. des.


"Evaṃ vimuttacitto kho, aggivessana, bhikkhu na kenaci saṃvadati, na

kenaci vivadati, yañca loke vuttaṃ tena voharati, aparāmasa"nti.



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