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The Yoga Upanishads
The Adyar Library, 1938
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The standard English edition of twenty Yoga Upanishads, translated from Sanskrit together with the commentary of Sri Upanishad Brahmayogin, the one exegete on record as having annotated all 108 Upanishads. It sets out the classical descriptions of the nadis, the chakras, kundalini and the subtle body Upanishad by Upanishad, in their own textual settings, rather than harmonising them into a single composite account. Several passages disagree with one another on anatomical detail, which the translation preserves rather than smooths over.
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Reliability Tier2
Reliability tier 2: a scholarly English translation of a primary Sanskrit scripture, issued by the Adyar Library with a named translator and a named editing scholar, rather than an independent secondary study of the text or an unmediated primary manuscript. NotesA historical rather than a contemporary scholarly translation. It carries no modern critical apparatus or manuscript collation notes, and its English is the idiom of 1930s Sanskrit scholarship associated with the Adyar Library and the Theosophical Society. It remains the standard reference translation of the Yoga Upanishads corpus and is still cited by later academic work on yogic subtle-body physiology. Its value here is as a faithful primary-text witness: it prints each Upanishad's own account of the nadis without harmonising them, which is exactly what documents a genuine disagreement between the source texts rather than papering over it.
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AuthorT. R. Srinivasa Ayyangar (translator), edited by S. Subrahmanya Sastri
PublisherThe Adyar Library
Publication Year1938
URLhttps://archive.org/details/TheYogaUpanisadsSanskritEngish1938Text
Source TypePrimary text in translation
Claims Backed By This Source (30 claims)
This source backs 30 claims across the atlas. As facts: 15 well-attested, 4 scholarly debate. Plus 11 entities citing it as a general reference with no single fact or relationship attached.
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- Nadis, 22 claims: 7 well-attested, 4 scholarly debate, 11 general references.
- Sources, 8 claims: 8 well-attested.
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