upaniśad | उपनिशद् | upanizad
1. upa-ni-śad | उप-नि-शद् | (upa-ni-√ sad | उप-नि-√ सद् |) P. (pf. -ni/-śedus | -नि/-शेदुस् |) to sit down near to; to approach, set about, AV. xix, 41, 1; ŚBr.; Kauś.
2. upa-niśa/d | उप-निश/द् | 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 upaniśad | उपनिशद् | means ‘setting at rest ignorance by revealing the knowledge of the supreme spirit’)
the mystery which underlies or rests underneath the external system of things (cf. IW. p. 35 seqq.)
esoteric doctrine, secret doctrine, mysterious or mystical meaning, words of mystery &c., ŚBr.; ChUp. &c.
a class of philosophical writings (more than a hundred in number, attached to the Brāhmaṇas [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 Upaniṣads See IW. p. 37 seq.)
2. upa-niśa/d | उप-निश/द् | 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 upaniśad | उपनिशद् | means ‘setting at rest ignorance by revealing the knowledge of the supreme spirit’)
the mystery which underlies or rests underneath the external system of things (cf. IW. p. 35 seqq.)
esoteric doctrine, secret doctrine, mysterious or mystical meaning, words of mystery &c., ŚBr.; ChUp. &c.
a class of philosophical writings (more than a hundred in number, attached to the Brāhmaṇas [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 Upaniṣads See IW. p. 37 seq.)