Background
Rajendralal Mitra was born on February 15, 1824, in a suburb of Calcutta, in a respectable family of the Kayastha or writer caste of Bengal.
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The Upanishads are perhaps one of the oldest philosophical treatises concerned with the mystery of the Absolute. This work (in three volumes) presents a study of the twelve principal Upanishads , thus unfolding the spirit and substance of Upanishadic thought. Written in a lucid style, it offers the text of the Upanishads in Devanagari and its translation in English along with detailed noted incorporating the commentaries of prominent spiritual thinkers and teachers including Shankaracarya and Shankaranand. The authors, scholars who have put in years of intense study on the subject, here offer a fresh approach and new insights into the philosophy of absolute unity as taught by the Upanishads and its quest for answers to abstruse questions like the origin of the universe, the nature of deity and the soul, and connection of mind and matter. The volumes are a must for scholars of Indian philosophy as well as students, and especially those genuine aspirants who wish to achieve moksha by the process of yoga for moksha is not possible without understanding the meaning of the Upanishads.
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Rajendralal Mitra was born on February 15, 1824, in a suburb of Calcutta, in a respectable family of the Kayastha or writer caste of Bengal.
To a large extent Mitra was self-educated, studying Sanskrit and Persian in the library of his father.
In 1846 he was appointed librarian of the Asiatic Society, and to that society the remainder of his life was devoted—as philological secretary, as vice-president, and as the first native president in 1885. Apart from very numerous contributions to the society's journal, and to the series of Sanskrit texts entitled "Bibliotheca indica, " he published three separate works: 1. The Antiquities of Orissa (2 vols. , 1875 and 1880), illustrated with photographic plates, in which he traced back the image of Jagannath (Juggernaut) and also the car-festival to a Buddhistic origin; 2. a similarly illustrated work on Bodh Gaya (1878), the hermitage of Sakya Muni, and 3. Indo-Aryans (2 vols. , 1881), a collection of essays dealing with the manners and customs of the people of India from Vedic times. He received the honorary degree of LL. D. from the university of Calcutta in 1875, the companionship of the Indian Empire when that order was founded in 1878, and the title of raja in 1888.
Raja Rajendralal Mitra died on July 26, 1891, at Kolkata.
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