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Upanishad|uːˈpænɪʃæd|
[a. Skr. upa-nishád, f. upa near to + ni-shad to sit or lie down.]
In Sanskrit literature, one or other of various speculative treatises chiefly dealing with the Deity, creation, and existence, and forming a division of the Vedic literature.
1805Colebrooke in Asiatic Researches VIII. 446, I shall here quote, from this Upanishad, a single dialogue. 1816R. Roy (title), Translation of the Céna Upanishad, one of the chapters of the Sáma Véda. 1861Max Müller Lect. Sci. Lang. 145 Dárá..became a student of Sanskrit, and translated the Upanishads..into Persian..in the year 1657. |