The Mahanarayanaupanishad of the Atharva-Veda With the Dipika of Narayana: Edited (Classic Reprint)

The Upanishad comprised in the Tenth Book of the Taittiriya Aranyaka is well-known to scholars, and has been published both in Calcutta and in Bombay. In its A tharvana recension, however, it appears now in print for the first time. In this form it is generally styled the Brilianiiarayana, but I have adhered to the title given to it by Narayana and found also in two manuscripts of the text. The Dipika seems to be almost unknown. It does not appear in any of the Catalogues published in I ndia, noris there, so far as I know, any reference to it in the writings of Ori ental scholars. Unfortunately, I have been compelled to edit it from the one manuscript belonging to the Government collection in Poona ;but having failed to secure another copy, although I made enquiry in Calcutta, Benares and Bombay, I thought it better to put this forth tentatively, subject to future correction, rather than keep it back altogether. Though Narayana is the author of Notes on numerous Upanishads, still next to nothing is known of his history, or when and where he lived. That he was the son of Sri-R atnakara and the grandson of Sri-N atha, he himself tells us in the colophon to his Annotations on the Mandukya Upanishad, and this is almost all that I know about him! I need scarcely remark that I have invariably adopted the reading of the text underlying the Dipika, so far as it could be gathered from that source. A s, however, Narayana does not, like Sayana, give a running commentary on the entire Upanishad, but confines himself to the more difficult portions which need elucida tion, it is manifest that the whole text is not contained in his Work.
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