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 The Aitareya Upanishad, is found embedded inside the Rigveda. Above: a manuscript page (Sanskrit, Devanagari script) | |
| Devanagari | ऐतरेय |
| IAST | Aitareya |
| Date | 1st millennium BCE |
| Author(s) | Aitareya Mahidasa |
| Type | Mukhya Upanishad |
| Linked Veda | Rigveda |
| Linked Brahmana | Aitareya Brahmana |
| Linked Aranyaka | Aitareya Aranyaka |
| Chapters | 3 |
| Verses | 33 |
| Philosophy | Ātman, Brahman |
| Commented by | Adi Shankara, Madhvacharya |
| Popular verse | "Prajñānam Brahma" |
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The Aitareya Upanishad (Sanskrit: ऐतरेयोपनिषद्, IAST: Aitareyopaniṣad) is a Mukhya Upanishad, associated with the Rigveda. It comprises the fourth, fifth and sixth chapters of the second book of Aitareya Aranyaka, which is one of the four layers of Rig vedic text.[1]
Aitareya Upanishad discusses three philosophical themes: first, that the world and man is the creation of the Atman (Universal Self); second, the theory that the Atman undergoes threefold birth; third, that Consciousness is the essence of Atman.[2]
- ^ Paul Deussen, Sixty Upanishads of the Veda, Volume 1, Motilal Banarsidass, ISBN 978-81-208-1468-4, pages 7–14
- ^ Paul Deussen, Sixty Upanishads of the Veda, Volume 1, Motilal Banarsidass, ISBN 978-81-208-1468-4, pages 13–20