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The doctrine of four in the early upanisads some connected problems

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Abbreviations

AA :

Abhisamayālankārāloka of Haribhadra on Maitreyanātha'sAK

AGV :

THE ĀGAMAŚĀSTRA OF \(\bar A\)GAMAŚ\(\bar A\)ATRA OF GAU\(\underset{\raise0.3em\hbox{$\smash{\scriptscriptstyle\cdot}$}}{D}\)AP\(\bar A\)DA (Bhattacharya, V)

AK :

Abhisamayālankārakārikā of Maitreyanātha, ed. withAA (See Bibliography)

AVP :

Atharvaveda (Paippalāda)

AVŚ :

Atharvaveda (Śaunakīya)

BS :

Brahmasūtra

BU :

B \(\underset{\raise0.3em\hbox{$\smash{\scriptscriptstyle\cdot}$}}{r}\)hadāra\(\underset{\raise0.3em\hbox{$\smash{\scriptscriptstyle\cdot}$}}{n}\)yaka Upani\(\underset{\raise0.3em\hbox{$\smash{\scriptscriptstyle\cdot}$}}{s}\)ad

CU :

Chāndogya Chāndogya Upani\(\underset{\raise0.3em\hbox{$\smash{\scriptscriptstyle\cdot}$}}{s}\)ad

GKK :

GAU \(\underset{\raise0.3em\hbox{$\smash{\scriptscriptstyle\cdot}$}}{D}\)AP\(\bar A\)FAKARIK\(\bar A\) (Karmarkar)

HIL :

A HISTORY OF INDIAN LITERATURE (Winternitz)

HIP :

A HISTORY OF INDIAN PHILOSOPHY (Dasgupta)

HSL :

A HISTOR Y OF SANSKRIT LITERATURE (Macdonell)

IA :

INDIAN ANTIQUARY

ISHL :

INDIAN STUDIES IN HONOR OF C. R. LANMAN

MK :

Mā\(\underset{\raise0.3em\hbox{$\smash{\scriptscriptstyle\cdot}$}}{n}\) \(\underset{\raise0.3em\hbox{$\smash{\scriptscriptstyle\cdot}$}}{d}\) \(\bar u\)kyakārikās

MU :

Mā\(\underset{\raise0.3em\hbox{$\smash{\scriptscriptstyle\cdot}$}}{n}\) \(\underset{\raise0.3em\hbox{$\smash{\scriptscriptstyle\cdot}$}}{d}\) \(\bar u\)şad

MUK :

MU+MK

OCD :

ORIGIN OF THE CATU \(\underset{\raise0.3em\hbox{$\smash{\scriptscriptstyle\cdot}$}}{S}\)KA\(\bar A\)YA DOCTRINE (Bhattacharya, D).

PMK :

THE PHILOSOPHY OF M \(\bar A\) KĀRIKĀ (Conio).

PU :

THE PHILOSOPHY OF THE UPANISADS (Deussen).

ŔV :

ŚV

ŚB :

Śatapatha Brāhmana

Śraddha :

Mahāyānaśraddhotpādaśāstra

Sūtrā :

Mahāyānasūtrālankāra

SVD :

THE SYSTEM OF THE VEDĀNTA (Deussen)

TPM :

THEORY AND PRACTICE OF THE MANDALA (Tucci)

TPU :

THE THIRTEEN PRINCIPAL UPANISADS (Hume)

Upa :

Īśādidaśopaniśadah (Motilal Banarsidass)

VGA :

GAUDAPĀDIYAM ĀGAMAŚĀSTRAM (Bhattacharya, V.)

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Bhattacharya, D. The doctrine of four in the early upanisads some connected problems. J Indian Philos 6, 1–34 (1978). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00207332

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