Essay name: The concept of Creation in the Major Upanisads
Author:
C. Poulose
Affiliation: Sree Sankaracharya University of Sanskrit / Department of Sanskrit Vedanta
This study deals with the Concept of Creation according to the Major Upanishads—ancient Indian scriptures that form a crucial part of Vedic literature and Indian philosophy. The present research investigates the Upanisadic philosophy in general as well as the school of Advaita Vedanta and other Indian philosophical traditions that incorporate Upanishadic teachings.
Chapter 2 - Major Upanishads
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they were undergone treatment in the hands of Sri Sankara. Sankara has commented only on these ten pieces. If some one else had gone through the cognition of the unquestionable scholar the same also might have been received the venerable attention of the later orientalists. Under five heads and the ten principal or major Upanisads are distributed among the vedic texts follows: 18 Rgveda - Aitareyopanisad. Śuklayajurveda Iśāvāsyopaniṣad. - Kṛṣṇayajurveda - Sāmaveda Bṛhadāraṇyakopaniṣad. Kathopaniṣad. Taittiriyopaniṣad. - Kenopaniṣad. Chandogyopaniṣad. Atharvaveda Praśnopaniṣad. Mundakopaniṣad. Māṇḍūkyopanisad. There is yet another commentary available for the Sv. Up. under the patronage of Śankara. It is doubtless that the same is definitely a later product. The introductory note given in the 37
