mukhya
मुख्य mukhya"Principal" or "chief"; the conventional label for the ten principal Upanishads, though the Muktika text that lists them calls them simply the ten (dashopanishad), never mukhya.
Where this term appears
- What are the Upanishads? Scriptures
Scholars and the major philosophers work instead with a much smaller core, the so-called mukhya or principal Upanishads, usually counted as around thirteen.
- Ten names in one breath Treatise
The word the Muktika never uses The tradition and the textbooks call these the mukhya Upanishads, the principal ones.
- The Thirteen and the Hundred Treatise
There is no single fixed number of Upanishads. The tradition's best-known figure is 108, from a list given in the late Muktika Upanishad. But the texts that matter…