The
Sacred Books of the East, Volume 1
The Upanishads, Part I
Translated by F. Max Müller
Oxford, the Clarendon Press
[1879]
Scanned at sacred-texts.com, 1997 and 2003, by John Bruno Hare. This text is in the public domain because it was published prior to 1923.
TO
THE RIGHT HONOURABLE THE MARQUIS OF SALISBURY, KG.
CHANCELLOR OF THE UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD,
LATELY SECRETARY OF STATE FOR INDIA,
SIR HENRY J. S. MAINE, K.OS.I.
MEMBER OF THE COUNCIL OF INDIA,
AND
THE VERY REV. H. G. LIDDELL, DD.
DEAN OF CHRIST CHURCH,
TO WHOSE KIND INTEREST AND EXERTIONS
THIS ATTEMPT TO MAKE KNOWN TO THE ENGLISH PEOPLE
THE SACRED BOOKS OF THE EAST
IS SO LARGELY INDEBTED,
I NOW DEDICATE THESE VOLUMES WITH SINCERE RESPECT AND GRATITUDE,
F. MAX MÜLLER.
This is the first volume of the Sacred Books of the East, and the first etext ever prepared for sacred-texts.com. SBE 1 contains the introduction to the entire series, and explains the methodology and conventions used in the rest of the SBE. The Upanishads translated here are the Chandogya, Talavakara, Aitreya-Aranyaka, the Kaushitaki-Brahmana, and the Vajasaneyi Samhita.