Download or read book The Early Upanishads written by and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 1998-09-24 with total page 700 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the full edition of the early Upanisads, the central scriptures of Hinduism. Featuring Patrick Olivelle's acclaimed new English translation (Oxford, 1996), it also includes the complete Sanskrit text, as well as variant readings, scholarly emendations, and explanations of Olivelle's choices of particular readings. The volume also contains a concordance of the two recensions of the Brhadaranyaka Upanisad, and an extensive bibliography.