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Upanishad

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aranyakanoun	(Hinduism) Any part of the ancient Indian Vedas concerned with the meaning of ritual sacrifice.
bindu	a Sanskrit word meaning "point", "drop" or "dot".
katha upanishadnoun	One of the primary Upanishads, embedded in the last eight short sections of the Kaṭha school of the Krishna Yajurveda.
vedantanoun	A Hindu system of philosophy concerned with the self-realisation by which one comes to understand the ultimate nature of reality, or Brahman.
upapurananoun	Any of a group of Hindu religious texts of secondary importance compared with the Puranas.
brahmananoun	(Hinduism) Any of several ancient Hindu religious prose texts that explain the relationship of the Vedas to the sacrificial ceremonies.
vedanoun	(Hinduism) Any of a large body of texts originating in Ancient India. They form the oldest layer of Sanskrit literature and the oldest sacred texts of Hinduism.
atharvavedanoun	A sacred text of Hinduism, and one of the four Vedas, often called the "fourth Veda".
purushanoun	(Hinduism) In the Upanishad, an abstract essence of self, spirit, and the Universal Principle that is eternal, without form and all-pervasive, distinguished from the mutable material world.
rigvedanoun	An ancient Indian Veda and sacred collection of Vedic Sanskrit hymns dedicated to the gods (devas), composed between 1700–1100 B.C.E.
mahabharatanoun	(Hinduism, mythology) An ancient Sanskrit epic concerning some text of the Bhagavad Gita, including elaborations on theology and morality.
tantranoun	A Hindu or Buddhist religious or esoteric text.
mantranoun	(by extension) A slogan or phrase often repeated.
shastranoun	A treatise for authoritative instruction in Hinduism, especially one explaining the Vedas.
agastyanoun	(Hinduism) One of the Saptarishis (seven sages), a revered Vedic sage and the author of Agastya Samhita.
samhitanoun	The basic metrical (mantra) text of a Veda.
itihasanoun	(Hinduism) The collection of written descriptions of important events in Hinduism, including the Mahabharata, the Puranas and the Ramayana.
bhagavata purananoun	One of the Hindu Puranas, with its primary focus on the incarnations of Vishnu, particularly Krishna.
abhimanyunoun	The son of Arjuna and Subhadra in Mahabharata.
bhagavad gitanoun	An epic poem from Mahabharata where Krishna gives Arjuna a discourse on ethics.