The Upanishads

Edition and rights

The Sacred Books of the East, vols. 1 (1879) and 15 (1884): The Upanishads, parts I and II, Clarendon Press, Oxford

Translations published 1879 and 1884; translator F. Max Müller died 1900. Public domain worldwide (life+70) and in the US (published before 1929).

Source: https://sacred-texts.com/hin/sbe01/index.htm Text taken from the Internet Sacred Text Archive's plain-text transcription (retrieved through the Internet Archive because sacred-texts.com refuses automated downloads); the archive's page headers and notes, and the book's front matter, notes and commentary, removed. Normalisation: sacred-texts editorial insertion starting 'Note by Redactor' dropped (not part of the printed book); Katha Up. VI, 16: transcription prints '116.'; corrected to 16; Prasna Up. I, 1: unnumbered opening line(s) 'Adoration to the Highest Self! Harih, Om' kept at the start of the first verse; Taitt. Up. I, 3, 4: numbering goes from 2 to 4 in the transcription; Taitt. Up. I, 10, 4: numbering goes from 1 to 4 in the transcription; Muller's introductory note in the body before Ait. Ar. II, 4 dropped ('With this adhyaya begins the real Upanis'...); Muller's introductory note in the body before Ait. Ar. II, 4 dropped ('This is well expressed in the Kaushitaki'...); Muller's introductory note in the body before Ait. Ar. II, 4 dropped ('This, however, though it may have satisf'...); Ait. Ar. II, 4, 1, 1: unnumbered opening line(s) 'Adoration to the Highest Self. Hari, Om!' kept at the start of the first verse; Khand. Up. I, 3, 1: verse number missing in the transcription, restored from the sequence; Khand. Up. II, 1, 4: numbering goes from 2 to 4 in the transcription; Khand. Up. II, 13, 1–2: verses printed together kept as one unit; Khand. Up. IV, 10, 4: numbering goes from 2 to 4 in the transcription; Khand. Up. V, 10, 1: verse number missing in the transcription, restored from the sequence; Brih. Up. I, 3, 22: numbering goes from 20 to 22 in the transcription; Brih. Up. II, 4, 9: numbering goes from 7 to 9 in the transcription; Brih. Up. II, 6 (a lineage of teachers, with its own running numbers) kept as one unit; Brih. Up. III, 1, 1: unnumbered opening line(s) 'Adoration to the Highest Self (Paramatma' kept at the start of the first verse; Brih. Up. III, 1, 3: transcription prints '1.' between verses 2 and 4; corrected to 3; Brih. Up. III, 9, 26: numbering goes from 24 to 26 in the transcription; Brih. Up. III, 9, 28: lower number inside a verse kept in its text ("1. 'As a mighty tree in the fo"); Brih. Up. III, 9, 28: lower number inside a verse kept in its text ("2. 'From his skin flows forth "); Brih. Up. III, 9, 28: lower number inside a verse kept in its text ("3. 'The lumps of his flesh are"); Brih. Up. III, 9, 28: lower number inside a verse kept in its text ("4. 'But, while the tree, when "); Brih. Up. III, 9, 28: lower number inside a verse kept in its text ('5. \'Do not say, "from seed," f'); Brih. Up. III, 9, 28: lower number inside a verse kept in its text ("6. 'If a tree is pulled up wit"); Brih. Up. III, 9, 28: lower number inside a verse kept in its text ("7. 'Once born, he is not born "); Brih. Up. IV, 6 (a lineage of teachers, with its own running numbers) kept as one unit; Brih. Up. VI, 5 (a lineage of teachers, with its own running numbers) kept as one unit; Kaush. Up. I, 4: numbering goes from 2 to 4 in the transcription; Kaush. Up. IV, 3: numbering goes from 1 to 3 in the transcription; Kaush. Up. IV, 13: verse number missing in the transcription, restored from the sequence; Maitr. Up. VI, 22: numbering goes from 20 to 22 in the transcription; sacred-texts page headers and printed page numbers ([p. n]: 779 lines, 8 inline) removed; paragraphs split by a page break rejoined: 446; footnote references [*n] removed: 1892; footnote blocks dropped: 291; Muller's bracketed explanatory words and his parenthesised Sanskrit paragraph counts, e.g. '(1)', kept as printed; Verse numerals moved into keys; unnumbered paragraphs belong to the preceding verse; Transcription is plain ASCII: Muller's diacritics (a with circumflex, italic palatals) are not reproduced, as in the source file; sacred-texts inserted Hume's 1921 translation of Brih. Up. VI, 4 after Muller's; Hume's text dropped, Muller's version (partly left in Sanskrit by him) kept.