Mahanarayana Upanishad

Mahānārāyaṇa is the name of several upanishads.

• The tenth chapter of the Taittiriya Aranyaka is also known as the Mahanarayana Upanishad of the Yajurveda. It exists in two recensions, now known as the Dravida, of 64 anuvakas, and the Andhra, of 80 anuvakas.^[1]
• There is a Mahanarayana Upanishad associated with the Atharvaveda, with similar content, in 25 khandas.^[2]
• A medieval text called the Tripadvibhuti, listed in the Muktika canon, is also sometimes called the Mahanarayana Upanishad.^[3] It is not related to the others.

Notes

1. ^ Deussen, pp.247-8
2. ^ Deussen, p.248. Also, Bloomfield Concordance, Preface. Both cite Jacob 1888.
3. ^ [1]

References

• Paul Deussen, Sixty Upanishads of the Veda, (tr. V.M. Bedekar and G.B. Palsule), Vol. I, Delhi, Motilal Banarsidass, 1980
• G.A.Jacob (ed), The Mahānārāyaṇa-Upaniṣad of the Atharva-Veda, Bombay Sanskrit Series No. XXXV, Bombay 1888.