num_pages: 336
description: 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.
language: English
title: The Samnyasa Upanisads: Hindu Scriptures on Asceticism and Renunciation
titlecomplete: The Samnyasa Upanisads: Hindu Scriptures on Asceticism and Renunciation
genres: Philosophy, Religion
ratings_count: 24
publisher: Oxford University Press