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English
Etymology
Borrowed from Sanskrit उपनिषद् (upaniṣad).
Noun
Upanishad (plural Upanishads)
- Any of a set of authorless Hindu religious and philosophical texts considered to be an early source of the religion, found mostly as the concluding part of the Brahmanas and in the Aranyakas.
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