Mahanarayana Upanishad
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Mahānārāyaṇa is the name of several upanishad
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Upanishad
The Upanishads are philosophical texts considered to be an early source of Hindu religion. More than 200 are known, of which the first dozen or so, the oldest and most important, are variously referred to as the principal, main or old Upanishads...
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- The tenth chapter of the Taittiriya Aranyaka is also known as the Mahanarayana Upanishad of the YajurvedaYajurvedaThe Yajurveda, a tatpurusha compound of "sacrificial formula', + ) is the third of the four canonical texts of Hinduism, the Vedas. By some, it is estimated to have been composed between 1400 and 1000 BC, the Yajurveda 'Samhita', or 'compilation', contains the liturgy needed to perform the...
. It exists in two recensions, now known as the Dravida, of 64 anuvakas, and the Andhra, of 80 anuvakas. - There is a Mahanarayana Upanishad associated with the AtharvavedaAtharvavedaThe Atharvaveda is a sacred text of Hinduism and one of the four Vedas, often called the "fourth Veda"....
, with similar content, in 25 khandas. - A medieval text called the Tripadvibhuti, listed in the MuktikaMuktikaThe Muktikā refers to the canon of 108 upaniṣadas of the Advaita school enumerated in the Muktikopaniṣad, the 108th of which is the Muktikopaniṣad itself...
canon, is also sometimes called the Mahanarayana Upanishad. It is not related to the others.