Chandogya Upanishad information

Chandogya
Chandogya
	The Chandogya Upanishad verses 1.1.1-1.1.9 (Sanskrit, Devanagari script)
Devanagari	छान्दोग्य
IAST	Chāndogya
Date	8th to 6th century BCE
Type	Mukhya Upanishad
Linked Veda	Samaveda
Chapters	Eight
Philosophy	Oneness of the Atman
Commented by	Adi Shankara, Madhvacharya
Popular verse	Tat tvam asi

The Chandogya Upanishad (Sanskrit: छान्दोग्योपनिषद्, IAST: Chāndogyopaniṣad) is a Sanskrit text embedded in the Chandogya Brahmana of the Sama Veda of Hinduism.^[1] It is one of the oldest Upanishads.^[2] It lists as number 9 in the Muktika canon of 108 Upanishads.^[3]

The Upanishad belongs to the Tandya school of the Samaveda.^[1] Like Brihadaranyaka Upanishad, the Chandogya is an anthology of texts that must have pre-existed as separate texts, and were edited into a larger text by one or more ancient Indian scholars.^[1] The precise chronology of Chandogya Upanishad is uncertain, and it is variously dated to have been composed by the 8th to 6th century BCE in India.^[2]^[4]^[5]

It is one of the largest Upanishadic compilations, and has eight Prapathakas (literally lectures, chapters), each with many volumes, and each volume contains many verses.^[6]^[7] The volumes are a motley collection of stories and themes. As part of the poetic and chants-focussed Samaveda, the broad unifying theme of the Upanishad is the importance of speech, language, song and chants to man's quest for knowledge and salvation, to metaphysical premises and questions, as well as to rituals.^[1]^[8]

The Chandogya Upanishad is notable for its lilting metric structure, its mention of ancient cultural elements such as musical instruments, and embedded philosophical premises that later served as foundation for Vedanta school of Hinduism.^[9] It is one of the most cited texts in later Bhasyas (reviews and commentaries) by scholars from the diverse schools of Hinduism. Adi Shankaracharya, for example, cited Chandogya Upanishad 810 times in his Vedanta Sutra Bhasya, more than any other ancient text.^[10]

^ ^a ^b ^c ^d Patrick Olivelle (2014), The Early Upanishads, Oxford University Press; ISBN 978-0195124354, pp. 166-169
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^ Paul Deussen, Sixty Upanishads of the Veda, Volume 2, Motilal Banarsidass, ISBN 978-8120814691, pages 556-557
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^ Paul Deussen, Sixty Upanishads of the Veda, Volume 2, Motilal Banarsidass, ISBN 978-8120814691, pages 61-65
^ Max Muller, Chandogya Upanishad, The Upanishads, Part I, Oxford University Press, pages LXXXVI-LXXXIX, 1-144 with footnotes
^ Paul Deussen, The System of Vedanta; ISBN 978-1432504946, pp. 30-31

[patrickolivellepreface-1] Patrick Olivelle (2014), The Early Upanishads, Oxford University Press; ISBN 978-0195124354, pp. 166-169

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[3] Paul Deussen, Sixty Upanishads of the Veda, Volume 2, Motilal Banarsidass, ISBN 978-8120814691, pages 556-557

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[5] Rosen, Steven J. (2006). Essential Hinduism. Westport, CT: Praeger Publishers. p. 125. ISBN 0-275-99006-0.

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[8] Paul Deussen, Sixty Upanishads of the Veda, Volume 2, Motilal Banarsidass, ISBN 978-8120814691, pages 61-65

[maxmullerfull-9] Max Muller, Chandogya Upanishad, The Upanishads, Part I, Oxford University Press, pages LXXXVI-LXXXIX, 1-144 with footnotes

[10] Paul Deussen, The System of Vedanta; ISBN 978-1432504946, pp. 30-31

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The Chandogya Upanishad verses 1.1.1-1.1.9 (Sanskrit, Devanagari script)
Devanagari	छान्दोग्य
IAST	Chāndogya
Date	8th to 6th century BCE
Type	Mukhya Upanishad
Linked Veda	Samaveda
Chapters	Eight
Philosophy	Oneness of the Atman
Commented by	Adi Shankara, Madhvacharya
Popular verse	Tat tvam asi

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