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This second volume completes the translation of the principal Upanishads to which Saṅkara appeals in his great commentary on the Vedânta-Sûtras, viz.:

These eleven have sometimes been called the old and genuine Upanishads, though I should be satisfied to call them the eleven classical Upanishads, or the fundamental Upanishads of the Vedânta philosophy. Vidyâranya, in his ’Elucidation of the meaning of all the Upanishads,’ Sarvopanishadarthânubhûti-prakâsa, confines himself likewise to those treatises, dropping, however, the Îsâ, and adding the Maitrâyana-upanishad, of which I have given a translation in this volume, and the Nrisimhottara-tapanîya-upanishad, the translation of which had to be reserved for the next volume.