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),…