The Upaniá¹£ads have often been treated as a unified corpus of religious and philosophical texts; separate from the older Vedic tradition. It is well known that the Upaniá¹£ads were initially composed and transmitted within specific schools of Vedic recitation; or ÅšÄkhÄs; but the ÅšÄkhÄ affiliation of each Upaniá¹£ad has received very little attention in the scholarly literature. The author offers a new interpretation of the older Upaniá¹£ads in the light of the Vedic school affiliations of each text. This book argues that issues of textual authority; and in particular the authority of the various Vedic schools; are central in the Upaniá¹£ads; and that the Upaniá¹£ads can; on one level; be read as texts about text. While analyzing the theme of textual authority in the Upaniá¹£ads; the author also outlines a theory of textual criticism as applied to orally transmitted texts that will be of use to textual scholars in other fields as well.
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