Prashna Upanishad contains six Prashna, and each is a chapter with a discussion of answers.
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16 Facts About Prashna Upanishad
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In some manuscripts discovered in India, the Prashna Upanishad is divided into three Adhyayas with a total of six Kandikas .
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Prashna Upanishad is notable for its structure and sociological insights into the education process in ancient India.
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Prashna Upanishad literally means, in modern usage, "question, query, inquiry".
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Prashna Upanishad was probably composed in the second half of 1st millennium BCE, likely after other Atharva Veda texts such as the Mundaka Upanishad, but the precise chronology of Prasna Upanishad is unclear and contested.
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Olivelle states Prashna Upanishad "cannot be much older than the beginning of the common era".
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Phillips dates Prashna Upanishad as having been composed after Brihadaranyaka, Chandogya, Isha, Taittiriya and Aitareya, Kena Katha and Mundaka, but before Mandukya, Svetasvatara and Maitri Upanishads.
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Opening verses of Prashna Upanishad describe students who arrive at a school seeking knowledge about Brahman .
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Prashna Upanishad is Aditya, illuminates everything, states the first Prashna, and has two paths - the northern and the southern.
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The Prashna Upanishad thus suggests multiple contextual meanings of the word Bhagavan.
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The Prashna Upanishad then enumerates a theory of human body that is found in older Vedic literature, such as the Brihadaranyaka Prashna Upanishad hymn II.
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Third Prashna Upanishad uses symbolic phrases, relying on more ancient texts.
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The fourth through sixth Prasna of the Prashna Upanishad focus on the nature of Self, that which is unchanging and independent of cause, of proof, and is self-evident.
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Prashna Upanishad begins the answer with a simile to state the background of extant theory, before offering its own explanation.
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Dream, states the Prashna Upanishad, is a form of enjoyment for the mind, where it reconfigures and experiences again, in new ways, what it has seen before, either recently or in past, either this life or another birth, whether true or untrue, whether heard or unheard, whether pleasant or unpleasant.
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Prashna Upanishad symbolically likens the three states of knowledge to sets of three: being awake, dream-sleep and deep-sleep; three pronunciations - tara, mandra and madhyama.
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