Traditional attribution · Essential works
Yājñavalkya-kāṇḍa (Muni-kāṇḍa): the debate at Janaka's court and the teachings to the king
याज्ञवल्कीयकाण्ड / मुनिकाण्ड (Bṛhadāraṇyaka 3–4)
Chapter 3 narrates the contest at the sacrifice of Janaka of Videha: Yājñavalkya answers Aśvala, Ārtabhāga, Bhujyu, Uṣasta, Kahola, Gārgī Vācaknavī, Uddālaka Āruṇi and Vidagdha Śākalya on ritual, death, karma, the "inner controller" (antaryāmin) and the imperishable (akṣara). Chapter 4 records his conversations with Janaka: the light of man, the states of waking, dreaming and deep sleep, death and rebirth, desire and liberation, and the doctrine of the ātman as "not this, not this". It ends with the second version of the dialogue with Maitreyī.
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Authorship note
The central section of the Bṛhadāraṇyaka (chapters 3 and 4), which tradition regards as Yājñavalkya's own teaching. Scholars read it as a literary composition built around his figure (Black 2007; Lindquist 2011).
Editions and translations
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English
The Early Upaniṣads: Annotated Text and Translation
Oxford University Press, 1998
Translation: Patrick Olivelle
ISBN 9780195124354
Bṛhadāraṇyaka 3–4.
Yajnavalkya
The Brihadaranyaka Upanishad, with the Commentary of Śaṅkarācārya
The Conscious LibraryThe Brihadaranyaka Upanishad, with the Commentary of Śaṅkarācārya
Advaita Ashrama, 1934
Translation: Swami Madhavananda
Con el comentario de Śaṅkara; derechos vigentes (Madhavananda murió en 1965).
Español
Yajnavalkya
Gran Upaniṣad del Bosque (Bṛhadāraṇyaka Upaniṣad)
The Conscious LibraryGran Upaniṣad del Bosque (Bṛhadāraṇyaka Upaniṣad)
Trotta, 2002
Translation: Consuelo Martín
ISBN 9788481645484
Other works by Yajnavalkya
- Bṛhadāraṇyaka Upaniṣad (The Great Forest Upaniṣad) · 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
- Jābāla Upaniṣad and Yājñavalkya Upaniṣad (Upaniṣads of renunciation)
- The dialogue of Yājñavalkya and Janaka in the Mahābhārata · 100
- Vṛddha-Yājñavalkya and Bṛhad-Yājñavalkya (fragments)
- Yājñavalkya Śikṣā (treatise on phonetics)
Sources
- Olivelle, Patrick (ed. y trad.). The Early Upaniṣads: Annotated Text and Translation. Nueva York: Oxford University Press, 1998 (South Asia Research). Introducción (datación, pp. 12–13) y Bṛhadāraṇyaka 2.4, 3.1–3.9, 4.1–4.5, 6.5.
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