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usdeiva • June 2, 1997 


Ramakrishnan Balasubramanian wrote:
> 
> usdeiva  wrote:
> 
> >sAttvika purANa episodes of the 'amrta-mathanam'). Most tragically,
> >a whole fictitious corpus of '108 upanishad' (which inter alia
> >included an allAh upanishad [!], apparently written in distress)
> >got fabricated and sanctified in print by the Adyar Library, Madras.
> 
> The edition of 108 upanishhad-s with the commentary of shrI upanishhad
> brahmayogin, which has been published by the Adyar Library does not contain the
> Allah upanishhad. Perhaps there is some other "later" upanishhad compilation
> which contains this. AFAIK, the upanishhad collection published by Motilal is
> supposed to have this, though I haven't had the chance to look at this myself.
> 
> Ramakrishnan.
> 
> PS: The 108 upanishhad-s published by the Adyar library are the 108 in the
> muktika upanishhad, with the complete commentary of brahmayogin.

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I am grateful for Shri Ramakrishnan's correction.   I need this kind of
guidance and support especially when I have to work without my
collections at hand.

I have myself noticed this particular 'upanishad' somewhere, maybe not
in the Adyar edn.  Nevertheless the point I'd like to make is that the
known classical commentators have not spoken of 108 upanishads.   On a
rule of pragmatism, it would be proper to reckon the classical
commentators beginning from SrI Sankara-bhagavatpAda and accept as
genuine those upanishads cited or commented upon by these personages.  
It would have been a great find to trace the 'bodhAyana-vrtti' which
SrI rAmAnuja had studied in the SAradA-peetham in kAshmIr, but a
Kashmiri Pundit whom I had consulted sometime in 1969 wrote to me to say
that the original location of the SAradA-peetham is to-day outside of
Indian control.

The religion is in no way strengthened by freely admitting all later-day
writing as 'scripture':  for, 'Srti' and 'smrti' postulate attentive
'listening' and a somewhat jealous 'memory' in securing our reverence
for our religious texts.

T.S. Sundara Rajan.