The Maitri or Maitrayaniya Upanishad: With Commentary of Ramatirtha (Classic Reprint)

Excerpt from The Maitri or Maitrayaniya Upanishad: With Commentary of Ramatirtha<br><br>The Sanskrit text was all printed in India before I left that country; but the publication has been delayed since my return to England in order that the concluding portion might be aecom panied by the English translation. The printed text was based on a collation of two mss. Containing the original and oommen taryat These were (l) A. An old and very correct ms. Belong ing to the library of the Asiatic Society of Bengal; and B. A less correct and modern ms. Procured by Professor Grifith from Benares. The two mss. Never difi''er except in errors of transcription and must have come from a common source. I subsequently procured from Poonah through Professor Hang a copy of a ms. Containing the five first books without the Com mentary the variants of which I subjoin in a list of various readings which follows this prefacct Since my return to England I have also partially collated the ms. Of the text and commentary (m.) which once belonged to Sir W. Jones and is now in the British Museum. It consists of two volumes (nos. 14767 copied in the Saka year 1715. Sankara''s commentary on the Taittiriya Upanishad is bound up with it in the second volume; hence as Ramatirtha''s name is nowhere mentioned Sir W. Jones in a note erroneously attributed the comm. On the present Upa niabad to the same author. Unfortunately it is a very bad ms.<br><br>About the Publisher<br><br>Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com<br><br>This 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.