Swami Nikhilananda

The Upanishads: A New Translation [Four Volume Set]

New York: Bonanza Books, 1949.

Early Bonanza reprint editions. Four volumes. Maroon cloth boards, gilt titles to spines and front boards; each volume in its original unclipped dust jacket. Vol 1: edgewear, chip, and sunning to spine of DJ, Vol 2: mild chipping to headband and endband of DJ, Vol 3: chip to headband of DJ, Vol 4: chipping to headband, sunning along spine, small tears to front panel of DJ. All pages clean and binding tight.

A complete four-volume set of Swami Nikhilananda’s influential mid-century translation and commentary, issued by Bonanza Books in partnership with Harper & Brothers. Each volume contains detailed introductions, extensive notes, and explanations based on the commentary of Śaṅkarācārya, the seminal eighth-century philosopher and mystic of India.

Valuable for students and collectors of Hindu philosophy, Sanskrit translation, and comparative religion, and an essential reference work in its complete four-volume form.