father of the poet). He had long been seeking inner peace in vain, when one day a page of the Isa Upanishad blew past him. He had never read any of the Upanishads before, and the effect of this one page was the transformation of his whole life and the new-directing of all his energies. The message from the ancient book came to him as a divine answer specially sent for his salvation . . . “Oh, what a blessed day that was for me!"' (pp. 77-78). ... URQUHART, W. S. The Upanishads and Life. Calcutta, Oxford University Press and Association Press, 1916. 150 pp. EDGERTON, FRANKLIN. Sources of the Filosofy of the Upanisads. In Journal of the American Oriental Society, vol. 36 (1916), pp. 197– 204. By the Professor of Sanskrit at the University of Pennsylvania. RADHAKRISHNAN, S. The Reign of Religion in Contemporary Philosophy. London, Macmillan, 1920. 463 pp. In a book notable for acquaintance with modern philosophy in the West, the Professor of Philosophy in the University of Mysore devotes his final chapter to 'Suggestions of an Approach to Reality based on the Upanishads.' The concluding sentence of the book declares: 'The Upanishads being the earliest form of speculative idealism in the world, all that is good and great in subsequent philosophy looks like an unconscious commentary on the Upanishadic ideal, showing how free and expansive and how capable of accommodating within itself all forms of truth that ideal is' (p. 451). CARPENTER, EDWARD. Pagan and Christian Creeds: their Origin and Meaning. London, Allen & Unwin, 1920. 318 pp. Beside numerous references to the Upanishads, there is an 'Appendix on the Teachings of the Upanishads' (pp. 283-308). SANSKRIT INDEX References to the principal occurrences of important Sanskrit words, The sequence of letters is that of the Sanskrit alphabet. Superior akṣara, imperishable, 118, 1821, advaita, without duality, 138, 392 anrta, the false, 151, 287 antar-yāmin, inner controller, 114-117, 281', 392 alakṣaṇa, having no distinctive alinga, without any mark, 359 avyakta, unmanifest, 8, 352, 359, asura, devil, 76, 150, 178, 179, ahaṁkāra, egoism, 387, 391, 395, ākāśa, ether, space, 256, 257, acaratha, follow (imperative), 6, ājñāna, perception, 300 ätmanvin, possessing a self, em- atma-sakti, self-power, 394 indrajala, jugglery, 420 iś, isa, Lord, 374, 395, 400, 402, uktha, hymn of praise, 92, 154 384, 416, 430, 446, 453 ṛta, world-order, right, 280, 293, enas, sin, 157, 365 karma(n), deeds, action, 54-57, 140, 144, 303, 319, 340, karmendriya, organ of action, kāma, desire, 300 kāraṇa, cause, 3941, 409 kṣatra, power, ruling class, 84", kha, space, 370, 389 tat tvam asi, That art thou, (32), tan-mātra, subtile substance, 418 tarka, contemplation, 347, 435 conscious, state, 49, 39211, dama, restraint, 340 (cf. 150) deva, god, 277, 381, 394, 395, 396, 399: 402, 404, 405, dyaus pity, Heaven-father, 166 442 dvaita, duality, 101 dharma, law, 84, 91, 103, 456; 402, 404, 407, 429 156, 157, 158, 217, 291, bahir-atman, outer soul, 424 brahman (m.), Brahman priest, 62), 138, 144, 163, 265- brahmavādin, discourser on Brah- ma, 144, 201, 394, 402, 427 141, 221, 223, 283, 351, knowledge, 250, 251, 254; bhakti, devotion, 411 324-325, 327, 328 420, 430, 432 261 bhur, bhuvas, svar, mystic utter- mati, thought, 300 manas, mind, 290, 300, 325, 327, 334, 336, 351, 352, 359, manīṣā, thoughtfulness, 300 285 mantra, sacred verse, formula, 430, 435, 447, 450 matra, element, 386, 392 maya-maya, consisting of illusion, visvambhara, fire-holder (?), 82 396 world, 412 murti, material form, 296, 378, vaiśvānara, universal, 234, 391 medhas, wisdom, 300 mokṣa, liberation, 410, 436, 443 407, 420, 43, 455 vyāna, diffused breath, 125, 180, 425 |