muktika
मुक्तिक muktikaThe late Upanishad in which Rama enumerates 108 Upanishads to Hanuman; it is the source of the conventional count of 108.
Where this term appears
- What are the Upanishads? Scriptures
That figure comes from the Muktika Upanishad , which frames itself as a conversation between Rama and his devotee Hanuman.
- Ten names in one breath Treatise
Centuries later, a text called the Muktika Upanishad staged a scene in Ayodhya.
- The Mandukya Upanishad: twelve verses, four states, one sound Treatise
…aye , "the Mandukya alone suffices for the liberation of the seeker" (Muktika Upanishad 1.26).
- The Thirteen and the Hundred Treatise
At the end of the Muktika Upanishad , the god Rama, in answer to a question from Hanuman about how a person attains liberation, gives a number.
- What the ten amount to: the house read as one Treatise
…ion, wanting a way to carry the destination in the memory the way the Muktika verse carried the canon, distilled the whole equation into four short sentences and called them the mahavakyas , the great sayings.
- The Three Cities Treatise
… classified among the Shakta Upanishads , the eight Upanishads of the Muktika anthology dedicated to the Goddess (Sita, Tripuratapini, Devi, Tripura, Bhavana, Saubhagyalakshmi, Sarasvati-rahasya, Bahvricha).
- The Vedic-Tantric Authorization Treatise
In the Muktika anthology of one hundred and eight Upanishads — the canonical Hindu Upanishadic collection compiled in the early modern period, in the form Rama is traditionally said to have narrated to Hanuman …