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Bṛhadāraṇyaka Upaniṣad (The Great Forest Upaniṣad) — Yajnavalkya

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Bṛhadāraṇyaka Upaniṣad (The Great Forest Upaniṣad)

बृहदारण्यकोपनिषद् (Bṛhadāraṇyaka Upaniṣad)

Yājñavalkya con el rey Janaka (relieve)
byYajnavalkya

The longest and probably the oldest of the Upaniṣads. It is traditionally divided into three sections: the Madhu-kāṇḍa (chapters 1–2), with the first dialogue between Yājñavalkya and Maitreyī; the Muni- or Yājñavalkya-kāṇḍa (3–4), with the debate at Janaka's court and the teachings to the king on the light of the ātman, the states of consciousness, death and "neti neti"; and the Khila-kāṇḍa (5–6), a supplement of doctrines and rites ending with the lists of teachers. It is the main source for the early form of the doctrine of karma and rebirth, and one of the textual foundations of Vedānta.

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Authorship note

An anonymous, layered text, the last book (kāṇḍa 14) of the Śatapatha Brāhmaṇa, transmitted in the Kāṇva and Mādhyandina recensions. Yājñavalkya is its protagonist rather than its author in the modern sense: tradition credits him with the teachings the text puts in his mouth, above all in chapters 3 and 4. Olivelle dates it to around the seventh to sixth centuries BCE.

Editions and translations

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English

  • The Upanishads (Penguin Classics)

    Penguin Books, 2004

    Translation: Valerie J. Roebuck

    ISBN 9780141938011

    Edición impresa de 2003.

  • The Early Upaniṣads: Annotated Text and Translation — Yajnavalkya

    The Early Upaniṣads: Annotated Text and Translation

    Oxford University Press, 1998

    Translation: Patrick Olivelle

    ISBN 9780195124354

    Texto sánscrito y traducción; edición de referencia académica.

  • Upaniṣads (Oxford World's Classics) — Yajnavalkya

    Upaniṣads (Oxford World's Classics)

    Oxford University Press, 1996

    Translation: Patrick Olivelle

    ISBN 9780192835765

    Reedición de 2008: ISBN 9780199540259.

  • Sixty Upanishads of the Veda

    Motilal Banarsidass, 1980

    Translation: V. M. Bedekar y G. B. Palsule (del alemán de Paul Deussen)

    Dos volúmenes. Open Library registra la distribución estadounidense (Lawrence Verry, 1980) con ISBN 9780842616454; el ISBN 9788120814684 citado en otras bibliografías no aparece en Open Library.

  • The Thirteen Principal Upanishads

    Oxford University Press, 1921

    Translation: Robert Ernest Hume

    Hume murió en 1948: dominio público en EE. UU. y en la UE, no en España hasta 2029.

  • The Upanishads, Part II (Sacred Books of the East 15)

    Clarendon Press, 1884

    Translation: F. Max Müller

    Dominio público. Reimpresión de Dover (1962): ISBN 9780486209937.

Français

  • L'Upanishad du grand Aranyaka

    Librairie de l'art indépendant, 1894

    Translation: A.-Ferdinand Herold

    Dominio público.

  • Bṛhad-Āraṇyaka-Upaniṣad

    Les Belles Lettres, 1934

    Translation: Émile Senart

    Reimpresión de 1967.

Deutsch

  • Sechzig Upanishad's des Veda

    F. A. Brockhaus, 1897

    Translation: Paul Deussen

    Dominio público. Reimpresión de la Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft.

Italiano

  • Upaniṣad

    UTET, 1976

    Translation: Carlo Della Casa

Español

  • Gran Upaniṣad del Bosque (Bṛhadāraṇyaka Upaniṣad)

    Trotta, 2002

    Translation: Consuelo Martín

    ISBN 9788481645484

    Con el comentario advaita de Śaṅkara.

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  • La sabiduría del bosque: antología de las principales Upaniṣad

    Trotta, 2003

    Translation: Félix G. Ilárraz y Óscar Pujol

    ISBN 9788481645941

    Incluye la Bṛhadāraṇyaka y la Chāndogya.

Sánscrito · संस्कृतम्

  • बृहदारण्यकोपनिषत्

    Wikisource en sánscrito

    Texto sánscrito completo, seis adhyāya.

Other works by Yajnavalkya

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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