PDF These United States: The Questions of Our Past; Concise Edition; Volume 1:To 1877 (Chapters 1-16) (3rd Edition) by Irwin Unger in History

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Excerpt from Journal of the American Oriental Society; 1922; Vol. 42The present paper; while omitting notice of the repetition of brief formulas and phrases (see a subsequent paragraph); includes similarities of thought and of imagery; which are in many cases not revealed by a concordance; as well as numerous references to other Sanskrit texts; and its sequential arrangement makes available; section by section and line by line; without the necessity of search or collation; the material gathered in relation to each Upanishad and thus renders it serviceable in connection with consecutive reading or critical examination of any portion of the text.The Upanishads are taken up in the order here given; which is the approximate order of their antiquity; so far as that has been ascertained (cf. Hume; Thirteen Principal Upanishads; London; 1921; p. xii - xiii). The Bhagavad-Gita; which is included because of its close association for many centuries with the Upanishads; is placed last; as not being strictly a text of the same class.It has seemed worth while to add also a number of references to the Mahānarayana Upanishad; which clearly belongs in the group of older Upanishadic texts.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work; preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases; an imperfection in the original; such as a blemish or missing page; may be replicated in our edition. We do; however; repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.