# Upanishad

> English word · Noun · frequency rank #98,848

## Definitions
1. Any of a set of authorless Hindu religious and philosophical texts considered to be an early source of the religion, found mostly as the concluding part of the Brahmanas and in the Aranyakas.

## Etymology
Borrowed from Sanskrit उपनिषद् (upaniṣad).

## Source
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