BHAVAN’S LIBRARY This book is valuable and NOT to be ISSUED out of the Library without Special PermissionBIBLIOTIECA™INDICA COLLECTION OF ORTENTAL WOR IUSLUNED CSDER THE OT PERITTIMDESCE OP TAR ASIATIC SOCIETY OF BENGAL Nos. 78 avo }8!. THE CHMANDOGYA UPANISHAD Or Tur BAMA VEDA Witt FArRicta prow THe COMMENTAIY OF SANKARA ACHALYA. * 4 TMAMALATED PEOM THE OLIGINAL SANSEEITA EUPADEARGLA MITESINTRODUCTION, Tue Vedas have been justly detembod as tho most ancient monument of tho Anan world, ond ns tho only meanstoa proper stud of philology, they chim the lighest consderation from the historian of the human tongue. In them alone we find the first fruits of the Arian mind im its attempt ‘fo rise from nature np to nature's God,” and to unveil the mysteries of a futuro world They constitute the storchowse of early Indinn knowledge, and tho only exposilor of tho hoped and feara, the dosirewand wants, and the feelings and aspirations, Wich ampelled tho first Anan colonsts of Tniha in thor carcer through hfe. But the Vedas form not a homogeneous senet of works, nor aro they the prodactions of a snglo age. Dif furing in extent, character, contents arc] antiquity, the differ- ent portions huo very diffrent clums fo commdimtion. To the antiquinan and scholar tho Eafihatd portion of the Rig Veda will always appear the mest interesting, Lot among the anment Hindus, tho Sims, though thintin rand, was held in the hughest sencention, and hence it ra that Kprshoa, in thay Dhagaynt Gité, calle tamectf The Sine among the Veda"! Tt wns bhewite, at ane tine, suppose t> be the mat compre. henave of the four Vedat According to the Mahithiraty, whore statement has been repeated by the Vishad Purina and the Maaktiha Uprgihad, i mcladed ne lew thane thasaal Qficruk Mibbderen whedon Yrs on fi thane neat tela to the cantents of dhe Vedas the Charsnaryuha, notwith ata alertebcrag the chief source wheo th Mabdbbarata Bas eborrewed ite accounts of the Hieda scnpsums aad of ibe