Traditional attribution
Jābāla Upaniṣad and Yājñavalkya Upaniṣad (Upaniṣads of renunciation)
जाबालोपनिषद् · याज्ञवल्क्योपनिषद्
In the Jābāla, Janaka asks Yājñavalkya about renunciation, and he explains when and how one may become an ascetic, even directly from studenthood; Atri then asks him about the renouncer who does not wear the sacred thread. The later Yājñavalkya Upaniṣad develops the conduct of the paramahaṃsa. Patrick Olivelle translated both in his volume on the Saṃnyāsa Upaniṣads.
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Authorship note
Late Upaniṣads of the saṃnyāsa group, assigned to the White Yajurveda, in which Yājñavalkya appears as a teacher of renunciation. They are not his work: they borrow his figure from the departure scene of the Bṛhadāraṇyaka.
Editions and translations
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English
The Saṃnyāsa Upaniṣads: Hindu Scriptures on Asceticism and Renunciation
Oxford University Press, 1992
Translation: Patrick Olivelle
ISBN 9780195070453
Tapa dura: ISBN 9780195070446.
Other works by Yajnavalkya
- Bṛhadāraṇyaka Upaniṣad (The Great Forest Upaniṣad) · 650
- Yājñavalkya-kāṇḍa (Muni-kāṇḍa): the debate at Janaka's court and the teachings to the king · 650
- The dialogue with Maitreyī · 650
- Śatapatha Brāhmaṇa (The Brāhmaṇa of a Hundred Paths) · 750
- Vājasaneyi Saṃhitā (White Yajurveda) · 800
- Yājñavalkya Smṛti (Yājñavalkya's Treatise on Dharma) · 400
- Yoga Yājñavalkya
- Bṛhad Yogi Yājñavalkya Smṛti
- The dialogue of Yājñavalkya and Janaka in the Mahābhārata · 100
- Vṛddha-Yājñavalkya and Bṛhad-Yājñavalkya (fragments)
- Yājñavalkya Śikṣā (treatise on phonetics)
Sources
- Olivelle, Patrick (trad.). The Saṃnyāsa Upaniṣads: Hindu Scriptures on Asceticism and Renunciation. Nueva York: Oxford University Press, 1992 (incluye la Jābāla y la Yājñavalkya Upaniṣad).
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