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Upanisad

1. upaniṣad (upanisad) P. ( pf. niṣedus) to sit down near to; to approach, set about, AV. xix, 41, 1 ; ŚBr. ; Kauś.

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1. upaniṣad

1. upaniṣad (upanisad) P. ( pf. niṣedus) to sit down near to; to approach, set about, AV. xix, 41, 1 ; ŚBr. ; Kauś.

2. upaniṣad

2. upaniṣad t, f. (according to some) the sitting down at the feet of another to listen to his words (and hence, secret knowledge given in this manner; but according to native authorities upaniṣad means ‘setting at rest ignorance by revealing the knowledge of the supreme spirit’)

3. upaniṣad

a class of philosophical writings (more than a hundred in number, attached to the Brāhmaṇa s [but See Īśopaniṣad ]; their aim is the exposition of the secret meaning of the Veda , and they are regarded as the source of the Vedānta and Sāṃkhya philosophies; for the most important of the Upaniṣad s Se

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Sanskrit corpus record built from GRETIL sources (citations and statistics; GRETIL running text is not redistributable). Passage text, where shown, from the Digital Corpus of Sanskrit (CC BY 4.0). Dictionary senses from Monier-Williams (1899, public domain), via the Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries.