The new imprint of Friedrich Max Mullers Classic work on the systems of Indian philosophy brings to the readers a summing up of authors forty years of research on the vedic, upanishadic and other philosphical texts of ancient India. When he published this book, just about a year before his death, Max Muller was already famous as a scholar who presented classical Sanskrit works to the world in the series Sacred Books of the East.In this book he offers a survey of Indian Philosophy and a historical perspective on the different schools of the philosophy,which emerged in ancient India. This edition, abridged and greatly enriched with a scholarly introduction by Heeraman Tiwari, enables us to appreciate and evaluate a fundamental contribution to Indology by an acknowledged authority on the subject.