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The Samnyasa Upanisads: Hindu Scriptures on Asceticism and Renunciation Paperback - 1992
by Patrick Olivelle
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- Title The Samnyasa Upanisads: Hindu Scriptures on Asceticism and Renunciation
- Author Patrick Olivelle
- Binding Paperback
- Edition 1st Edition, 1st
- Condition New
- Pages 336
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Oxford Univ Pr on Demand, New York
- Date 1992
- Features Bibliography
- Bookseller's Inventory # x-0195070453
- ISBN 9780195070453 / 0195070453
- Weight 0.93 lbs (0.42 kg)
- Dimensions 8.27 x 5.55 x 1.02 in (21.01 x 14.10 x 2.59 cm)
- Reading level 1270
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Themes
- Cultural Region: British
- Religious Orientation: Hindu
- Library of Congress subjects Sannyasi - Early works to 1800, Asceticism - Hinduism - Early works to 1800
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 91-11353
- Dewey Decimal Code 294.592
From the rear cover
The first readable and accurate translation of twenty of the most authoritative Hindu documents pertaining to ascetic ideals and the ascetic way of life, this text opens to students a major source for the study of the Hindu ascetical institution and of the historical changes they underwent during a period of a thousand years or more.