Aitareya Upanishad

Aitareya
Aitareya
	The Aitareya Upanishad, is found embedded inside the Rigveda. Above: a manuscript page (Sanskrit, Devanagari script)
Devanagari	ऐतरेय
IAST	Aitareya
Date	1st millennium BCE
Author(s)	Aitareya Mahidasa
Type	Mukhya Upanishad
Linked Veda	Rigveda
Linked Brahmana	Aitareya Brahmana
Linked Aranyaka	Aitareya Aranyaka
Chapters	3
Verses	33
Philosophy	Ātman, Brahman
Commented by	Adi Shankara, Madhvacharya
Popular verse	"Prajñānam Brahma"

The Aitareya Upanishad (Sanskrit: ऐतरेयोपनिषद्, IAST: Aitareyopaniṣad) is a Mukhya Upanishad, associated with the Rigveda. It comprises the fourth, fifth and sixth chapters of the second book of Aitareya Aranyaka, which is one of the four layers of Rig vedic text.^[1]

Aitareya Upanishad discusses three philosophical themes: first, that the world and man is the creation of the Atman (Universal Self); second, the theory that the Atman undergoes threefold birth; third, that Consciousness is the essence of Atman.^[2]

^ Paul Deussen, Sixty Upanishads of the Veda, Volume 1, Motilal Banarsidass, ISBN 978-81-208-1468-4, pages 7–14
^ Paul Deussen, Sixty Upanishads of the Veda, Volume 1, Motilal Banarsidass, ISBN 978-81-208-1468-4, pages 13–20

[1] Paul Deussen, Sixty Upanishads of the Veda, Volume 1, Motilal Banarsidass, ISBN 978-81-208-1468-4, pages 7–14

[pauldeussen-2] Paul Deussen, Sixty Upanishads of the Veda, Volume 1, Motilal Banarsidass, ISBN 978-81-208-1468-4, pages 13–20

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Aitareya
The Aitareya Upanishad, is found embedded inside the Rigveda. Above: a manuscript page (Sanskrit, Devanagari script)
Devanagari	ऐतरेय
IAST	Aitareya
Date	1st millennium BCE
Author(s)	Aitareya Mahidasa
Type	Mukhya Upanishad
Linked Veda	Rigveda
Linked Brahmana	Aitareya Brahmana
Linked Aranyaka	Aitareya Aranyaka
Chapters	3
Verses	33
Philosophy	Ātman, Brahman
Commented by	Adi Shankara, Madhvacharya
Popular verse	"Prajñānam Brahma"