1. upaniṣad
1. upaniṣad (upanisad) P. ( pf. niṣedus) to sit down near to; to approach, set about, AV. xix, 41, 1 ; ŚBr. ; Kauś.
The corpus record — Sanskrit
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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Where it lives
- Taittiriya Upanisad 14 · 26.4/10k
- Isa Upanisad 2 · 20.96/10k
- Mandukya Upanisad 4 · 20.51/10k
- Katha Upanisad 1 · 4.64/10k
- Aitareya Upanisad 1 · 2.06/10k
- Prasna Upanisad 1 · 1.53/10k
- Brhadaranyaka Upanisad 10 · 1.32/10k
- Chandogya Upanisad 3 · 0.64/10k
What it meant — Monier-Williams
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 See IW. p. 37 seq. )
In the wild
- Upanisad Aitareya Upanisad aitup_1,1.1
- Upanisad Brhadaranyaka Upanisad brhup_1,1.1
- upaniṣadāṃ Brhadaranyaka Upanisad brhup_2,2.1
- upaniṣad Brhadaranyaka Upanisad brhup_2,2.1
- upaniṣadaḥ Brhadaranyaka Upanisad brhup_2,4.10
- upaniṣadaḥ Brhadaranyaka Upanisad brhup_2,4.11
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