REQUIRED WORK:

== Stein, pp. 54-63

== Embree, vol. 1, pp. 29-39: "The Ultimate Reality in the Upanishads"
== Embree, vol. 1, pp. 43-47: "The Background of Jainism and Buddhism"

== the Katha Upanishad, in the influential translation by Sri Aurobindo (1910). The young Naciketas deliberately irritates his father into saying "I give thee to Death!" (i.e., "Go to hell!"). Then he asks Yama, the god of Death, some questions... on *the CU website*. (Another translation, an annotated classic one by Max Mueller (1884), is online at *sacred-texts*).

== the Mandukya Upanishad, a short text devoted to explaining the syllable OM, here annotated by Kelley L. Ross: on *the CU website*.

== Excerpts from the Arthashastra of Kautilya, c.250 BCE (?) (and later): in the Shamasastry translation, at the *Internet Sourcebook site* (note: the mss. was discovered in Mysore around 1900; parts of it were first published in 1905)

 
FURTHER RESOURCES:

= Upanisads, selections translated by Patrick Olivelle (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1996). Easily available and highly recommended.

= An informal overview of the literature of the Vedic tradition by a distinguished Vedicist, Prof. Michael Witzel of Harvard: *on the CU site*

= Some further resources on the Upanishads, linked to our text, *Sources of Indian Tradition*