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It asserts that Ganesha is the same as the eternal underlying reality, Brahman. [2] [3] The text is attached to the Atharvaveda, [2] and is also referred to as the Sri Ganapati Atharva Sirsha, the Ganapati Atharvashirsha, the Ganapati Atharvasirsa, or the Ganapati Upanishad. The text exists in several variants, but with the same message.
The first complete English translation was made by Ralph T.H. Griffith in 1895-96, [81] followed shortly by Maurice Bloomfield's translation of about one third of the hymns in 1897. [82] These were followed by a nearly complete translation (missing Book 20) with textual commentary by William Dwight Whitney, published in 1905, which is still ...
The Chapter 1 of the text begins with the answer to the question, "Who is Rudra?" [17] He is introduced as that one "which existed at first, exists now and shall exist in future", the eternal and the non-eternal, the visible and the invisible, the Brahman and the non-Brahman, the east and west and north and south and above and below, the masculine and feminine and neuter, the Savitri and ...
The Devi Upanishad is part of the five Atharva Shiras Upanishads, each of which are named after the five main deities or shrines (panchayatanan) of Ganapati, Narayana, Rudra, Surya and Devi. [11] Its philosophy is also found in the Tripura Upanishad , Bahvricha Upanishad , and the Guhyakala Upanishad .
Uchchhishta Ganapati (Sanskrit: उच्छिष्ट-गणपति, Ucchiṣṭa Gaṇapati) is a Tantric aspect of the Hindu god Ganesha (Ganapati). He is the primary deity of the Uchchhishta Ganapatya sect, one of six major schools of the Ganapatyas .
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Deussen states that the text is from the group of five Upanishads which assert god Shiva as a symbolism for Atman in Hinduism. [8] Atharvashikha along with the other four Upanishads – Atharvashiras, Nilarudra, Kalagnirudra and Kaivalya – are ancient, with Nilarudra likely the oldest and Kaivalya the relatively later era Upanishad (still BCE) composed closer to the time of Shvetashvatara ...
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