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A GENERAL INDEX TO THE NAMES AND SUBJECT-MATTER OF THE SACRED BOOKS OF THE EAST COMPILED BY M. WINTERNITZ PROFESSOR OF INDIAN PHILOLOGY AND OF ETHNOLOGY IN THE GERMAN UNIVERSITY OF PRAGUE WITH A PREFACE BY A. A. MACDONELL BODEN PROFESSOR OF SANSKRIT IN THE UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD BANARSIDASS DELHI VARANASI PATNA SACRED BOOKS OF THE EAST SERIES IN 50 VOLUMES VOLS. I, 15. THE UPANISADS in 2 vols. F. Max Milller. a, 14. THE SACRED LAWS OF THE ARYAS in a vols. Georg BUhler. 3, 16, 27, a8, 39, 40. THE SACRED BOOKS OF CHINA in 6 vols. James Legge. 4,33,31. THE ZEND-AVESTA in 3 vols. James Darmesteter L. H. Mills. 5, 1 8, 24, 37, 47. PAHLAVI TEXTS in 5 vols. E. W. West. 6, 9. THE QURAN in a vols. E. H. Palmer. 7. THE INSTITUTES OF VISNU Julius Jolly. 8. THE BHAGAVADGlTA with the Sanatsujatlya and the Anuglta i Kashinfith Trimbak Telang. 10. THE DHAMMAPADA F. Max Milller SUTTA-NIPATA V. Fausb6ll. n. BUDDHIST SUTTAS T. W. Rhys Davids. 12,26,41,43,44. THE SATAPATHA-BRAHMANA in 5 vols. Julius Eggeling. 13, 17, ao. VINAYA TEXTS in 3 vols. T. W. Rhys Davids Hermann Oldenberg. 19. THE FO-SHO-HING-TSAN-KING Samuel Beal. 21. THE SADDHARMA-PUNDARlKA or The Lotus of the True Law i H. Kern. aa 45-JAINA SUTRAS in 2 vols. Hermann J. icobi. 25. MANU Georg Biihler. 29,30. THE GRIHYA-SOTRAS in av6ls. Hermann Oldenberg F. Max Mfiller. J 32, 46. VEDIG HYMNS in a ygls. E. Max Mflller H., Qldenberg. 33, THE MINOR LAW-BOOKS Julius Jolly. 34, 38. THE VEDANTA-SUTRAS i in a vols. with Sankaracaryas Commentary i G. Thibaut. 35, 36. THE QUESTIONS OF KING MILINDA in a vols. j T. W. Rhys Davids. 42. HYMNS OF THE ATHARVA-VEDA M. Bloomfield. 48. THE VEDANTA-SUTRAS with Rfimanujas Sribhasya G. Thibaut. 49. BUDDHIST MAHAYANATEXTS E. B. Cowell, F. Max Mttller J. Takakusu. 50. INDEX i M. Winternitz. RASHTRAPATI BHAVAN, NEW DELHi-4 June 10, 1962 I am very glad to know that the Sacred Books of the East, published years ago by the Clarendon Press, Oxford, which have been out-of-print for a number of years, will now be available to all students of religion and philosophy. The enterprise of the publishers is commendable and I hope the books will be widely read. S. RADHAKRISHNAN PUBLISHERS NOTE First, the man distinguished between eternal and perish able. Later he discovered within himself the germ of the Eternal. This discovery was an epoch hi the history of the human mind and the East was the first to discover it. To watch in the Sacred Books of the East the dawn of this religious consciousness of man, must always remain one of the most inspiring and hallowing sights in the whole history of the world. In order to have a solid foundation for a com parative study of the Religions of the East, we must have before all things, complete and thoroughly faithful translation of their Sacred Books in which some of the ancient sayings were pre served because they were so true and so striking that they could not be forgotten. They contained eternal truths, ex pressed for the first time in human language. With profoundest reverence for Dr. S. Radhakrishnan, Piesident of India, who inspired us for the task our deep sense of gratitude for Dr. G. D. Deshmukh Dr. D. S. Kothari, for encouraging assistance esteemed appreciation of UNESCO for the warm endorsement of the cause and finally with indebtedness to Dr. H. Rau, Director, Max Mtiller Bhawan, New Delhi, in procuring us the texts of the Series for reprint, we humbly conclude.CONTENTS PAGE PREFACE vii INTRODUCTORY NOTE xi LIST OF RELIGIONS REPRESENTED IN THE S. B. E. . . xv LIST OF THE TRANSLATORS xv KEY TO ABBREVIATIONS xvi LIST OF THE VOLUMES OF THE S. B. xvi THE INDEX 1-683 ADDENDA AND CORRIGENDA NOTE ON THE EDITIONS OK VOLS. 2, 4, 10 684 PREFACE BY PROFESSOR MACDONELL THE period covered by the inception, the publication, and the completion of the Sacred Books of the East exactly cp incides with the thirty-four years that I have spent in Oxford...
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