[INDOLOGY] An Upaniṣadic Reader

Harry Spier vasishtha.spier at gmail.com
Fri Apr 21 17:59:02 UTC 2023


I thought copyright belongs to the author, since the copyright exires 75
years after the authors death.
Harry Spier


On Fri, Apr 21, 2023 at 1:46 PM Jonathan Silk via INDOLOGY <
indology at list.indology.info> wrote:

> This may not be directly relevant, but when I published a book from
> University of Hawaii they immediately--without asking me--sold the rights
> to Motilal, who of course changed the title (so, I think, they can sell it
> to libraries who are not paying attention). But they reprinted the rest of
> the book as is, and as far as it went, it was legal (though the result was
> meant to be sold only in South Asia, but well, we all know how that goes)
>
> On Fri, Apr 21, 2023 at 5:07 PM Patrick Olivelle via INDOLOGY <
> indology at list.indology.info> wrote:
>
>> Well, it is complicated. They ordered 150 or so copies from OUP, and then
>> changed the title pages!! An old fashioned cut and paste job.
>>
>>
>>
>> On Apr 21, 2023, at 10:03 AM, Dominik Wujastyk via INDOLOGY <
>> indology at list.indology.info> wrote:
>>
>> I'm really shocked to hear this.  I thought Munshiram were okay.
>>
>> On Thu, 20 Apr 2023 at 15:35, Patrick Olivelle via INDOLOGY <
>> indology at list.indology.info> wrote:
>>
>>> Actually it was published by Oxford University Press. Munshiram is a
>>> plagiarized version.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> On Apr 20, 2023, at 4:04 PM, Eric Moses Gurevitch via INDOLOGY <
>>> indology at list.indology.info> wrote:
>>>
>>> Hello Gleb,
>>>
>>> To add to the already-mentioned resources, depending on your student's
>>> level of proficiency, Patrick Olivelle's 1998 *The Early Upaniṣads*,
>>> published with Munshiram Manoharlal Publishers, gives the Sanskrit text
>>> with page-facing English translations. It is quite navigable.
>>>
>>> Take care,
>>> Eric
>>>
>>> On Thu, Apr 20, 2023 at 3:53 PM Tejas Aralere via INDOLOGY <
>>> indology at list.indology.info> wrote:
>>>
>>>> I was trying to find Hock’s text’s name and was beat to it! It’s a
>>>> great reader.
>>>>
>>>> -Tejas
>>>>
>>>> On Thu, Apr 20, 2023 at 9:45 PM Dominik Wujastyk via INDOLOGY <
>>>> indology at list.indology.info> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> I suggest
>>>>>
>>>>>    - Hock, H. H. (2006) An Early Upanishadic Reader: With Notes,
>>>>>    Glossary, and an Appendix of Related Vedic Texts. Delhi: Motilal
>>>>>    Banarsidass Publishers.
>>>>>
>>>>> perhaps combined with
>>>>>
>>>>>    - Cohen, S., ed. (2017) The Upanisads. A Complete Guide. Abingdon:
>>>>>    Taylor & Francis Ltd.
>>>>>
>>>>> DW
>>>>>
>>>>> On Thu, 20 Apr 2023 at 12:02, Gleb Sharygin via INDOLOGY <
>>>>> indology at list.indology.info> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> Dear colleagues,
>>>>>>
>>>>>> A student of mine asks whether there exists a user-friendly reader
>>>>>> with literal (interlinear) word-to-word
>>>>>> translations, which engages the texts of the early Upaniṣads in the
>>>>>> way the new Pāli reader of Bhikkhu Bodhi
>>>>>> (2020) engages the Pāli texts.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I was able to suggest only the ISKCON version of the *Īśopaniṣad*
>>>>>> and * An Early Upaniṣadic Reader* (2007) by
>>>>>> Hans Heinrich Hock (the latter publication is very close to what my
>>>>>> student expects, but it places the glossary (or
>>>>>> vocabulary) at the end of the book, making it harder for a beginner
>>>>>> to use, and the translations are not literal).
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Are there other similar readers?
>>>>>>
>>>>>> --
>>>>>>
>>>>>> With kind regards (mettāya),
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Gleb Sharygin, Dr. des.
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> "Evaṃ vimuttacitto kho, aggivessana, bhikkhu na kenaci saṃvadati, na
>>>>>>
>>>>>> kenaci vivadati, yañca loke vuttaṃ tena voharati, aparāmasa"nti.
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
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>>> National Endowment for the Humanities Postdoctoral Fellow
>>> Vanderbilt University
>>> eric.m.gurevitch at vanderbilt.edu
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