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The Samnyasa Upanisads: Hindu Scriptures on Asceticism and Renunciation
Patrick Olivelle
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Overview
The first readable and accurate translation of twenty of the most authoritative Hindu documents pertaining to ascetic ideals and the ascetic way of life, this text opens to students a major source for the study of the Hindu ascetical institution and of the historical changes they underwent during a period of a thousand years or more.Synopsis
The first readable and accurate translation of twenty of the most authoritative Hindu documents pertaining to ascetic ideals and the ascetic way of life, this text opens to students a major source for the study of the Hindu ascetical institution and of the historical changes they underwent during a period of a thousand years or more.
Book Details
Published
February 1, 1992
Publisher
Oxford University Press, USA
Pages
336
Format
Paperback
ISBN
9780195070453