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6443816 No.6443816 [Reply] [Original]

Which translation of The Upanishads should I buy?

>> No.6443819

The Greek one

>> No.6443842

Juan Mascaro writes well but he often uses Christian terminology and analogy, which can be confusing.

>> No.6445353

>>6443816

The one you have pictured here (Olivelle) is considered the standard.

>> No.6445434

are you gonna read it?

>> No.6447112

>>6443816
Don't read translations

>> No.6447147

>>6447112

>i don't know ancient greek i just like saying meme shit :^)

>> No.6447159

>>6447147
stay below me pleb

>> No.6447164
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>>6447112
>>6447159
le epic translation meme XD

>> No.6448645

>>6445434

Yes, of course!

>>6447112

If I like the translation enough, maybe I will learn Sanskrit and read the original.

>> No.6448775

>>6443816

Olieville is really good. Footnotes are fantastic. By the way that volume contains 10 of the more discussed/read Upanisads, but there are in fact hundreds of "Upanisads," written over a 2,000 year period.

>> No.6449297

>>6448775

>By the way that volume contains 10 of the more discussed/read Upanisads, but there are in fact hundreds of "Upanisads," written over a 2,000 year period.

Yeah, that's something else that makes this process tricky: I want to buy a good translation, but I also want to buy a translation that contains a lot of material.

>> No.6449319

The King James Version, of course.

>> No.6449325

>>6449297

Start with Olieville and then go from there. What you'll realize pretty quickly is that these ancient texts get really distorted in translation and that there are passages nobody knows what the fuck they mean. It's philosophical, sure, but it's also hoary and primitive.

>> No.6449363

>>6449325

Thank you for helping me out, anon.