Upanishad

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. Any of a set of authorless Hindu religious and philosophical texts considered to be an early source of the religion, found mostly as the concluding part of the Brahmanas and in the Aranyakas.

Word forms

Upanishad Upanishads

Etymology

Borrowed from Sanskrit उपनिषद् (upaniṣad).

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