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The Composition of the Sanatsujātīya-parvan

The Sanatsujātīya (Mahābhārata 5, 42–45) is a didactic philosophical text that constitutes a part of the Udyogaparvan. The Somehow, Sanatsujātīya did has not attracted so much a great deal of attention of in the indological Indological scholarshipliterature, contrary as opposed to the more famousbetter-known Epic epic philosophical tracts. This philosophically interesting noteworthy text contains a number of textual parallels with the Vedic literature, especially the Upaniṣads, R̥k-, Atharva- and Vājasaneyi-Saṃhitā. On the other hand, there areit displays significant parallels with the Bhagavad- Gītā and Mānavadharma-Śāstra. This paper examines metrical patterns and verbal and non-verbal (mainly doctrinal) parallels in order to set up establish the chronological relationship of the Sanatsujātīya to the Upaniṣads and to the Bhagavad-Gītā. Parallels with the Bhagavad-Gītā, studied in the context of its layered structure (according to the scheme of its historical development proposed by M. Ježić), suggest that the Sanatsujātīya might be older than the final redaction of BhG, but younger than the Yoga, Sāṃkhya, and Upaniṣad layers. Furthermore, Sanatsujātīya conceptually belongs more to the Upaniṣadic (Vedāntic) philosophic horizon than to the Yogic and ascetic thought horizons ; also, Bhakti is not represented in the text.

text history ; Sanatsujātīya ; Udyogaparvan ; Mahābhārata , text parallels ; triṣṭubh ; śloka ; relative chronology

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