Hindu religious traditions
Prashna Upanishadप्रश्न उपनिषद्
Upanishad
Six inquiries to Pippalada address life, breath, meditation and the foundations of existence.
STORY & TRADITION
The world of Prashna Upanishad.
Six inquiries to Pippalada address life, breath, meditation and the foundations of existence.
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Details & context.
- Tradition dependence
- High — compare the identified textual or regional account.
- Library category
- Shruti
- Form / textual family
- Upanishad
- Traditional attribution
- An inherited textual tradition; no single historical author is established here.
- Subject & teachings
- Six inquiries to Pippalada address life, breath, meditation and the foundations of existence.
- Structure
- Consult the identified edition for chapters, recension and numbering.
- Associated deities / figures
- Pippalada; Atharvaveda
- Textual relationships
- Shruti
- Historical context
- Composition, transmission and redaction must be distinguished; no unsupported exact date is assigned.
- Reading notes
- Read the Sanskrit with an identified translation. Commentary is presented by its own school, not as the only interpretation.
- Tradition notes
- Names and accounts can vary by recension, region and commentary. This entry distinguishes attested details from identifications still requiring a passage-level source.
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Connected worlds.
3 connected profiles. Every path leads to an original record.
The Sacred Library2
Characters & Cosmic Entities1
Image credit.
Bhagavata Purana manuscript, West Bengal, 16th century (?), LACMA M.88.134.4. Gift of Mr. and Mrs. H. Robert Slusser. Image courtesy LACMA, public domain.
Original source · Public domain, released with LACMA's Public Domain High Resolution Image Available designationResized and converted to WebP.
READ THE SOURCES
Texts & references.
01
Upanishads — Sacred Books of the East XV
Katha, Mundaka, Taittiriya, Brihadaranyaka, Shvetashvatara, Prashna and Maitri.
Shruti · Translations and numbering vary by edition. Separate the primary text from its commentary.Reference overview. Consult the identified text and passage; unestablished fields are explicitly marked.