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''The Principal Upanishads'' is a 1953 book written Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan (1888–1975), then Vice President of India (and later President of India), about the main Upanishads, which carry central teachings of the Vedanta. Originally published in 1953 by Harper, the book has been republished several times. All editions have had 958 pages and have used the same title, although the spelling of "Upanishads" has varied slightly between editions and their listing elsewhere (the retroflex "sh" has also been represented as "ṣ" or as "ṣh"). ==Outline of book== Radhakrishnan's ''The Principal Upanishads'' begins with a 129 page introduction, with the following 19 section headers: General Influence; The Term 'Upaniṣad'; Number, Date and Authorship; The Upaniṣads as the Vedānta; Relation to the Vedas: The ''Ṛg Veda''; The ''Yajur'', the ''Sāma'' and the ''Atharva Vedas''; The Brāhmanas; The Āranyakas; The Upaniṣads;
The largest portion of the book (pp. 147–938) contains Sanskrit originals (in a romanized transliteration, rather than in Devanagiri), plus verse-by-verse translations and commentaries on the following Upanishads, in this order: The book also includes two appendices about the perspectives of Rabindranath Tagore and Edmond Holmes on the Upanishads, as well as a selected bibliography (2 pages) and general index (6 pages); all editions also contain a preface by the author (6 pages), dated 1951. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「The Principal Upanishads」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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