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Upanishad

upa·nis·had

uncommon

noun

1.

a later sacred text of Hinduism of a mystical nature dealing with metaphysical questions

  • “the Vedanta philosophy developed from the pantheistic views of the Upanishads”

Origin

Borrowed from Sanskrit उपनिषद् (upaniṣad).

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