page_title: Gopala Tapani Upanishad
hierarchical_section_title: Gopala Tapani Upanishad
caption_attribution_description: English: Sri Radha krishna Darshan at Vrundavan, Banshankari II Stage, Bangalore
context_page_description: Gopāla-tāpanī Upanishad is a Sanskrit text, and 1 of the later Upanishad attached to the Atharvaveda. The Gopāla-tāpanī is one of the four Tāpinī Upanishads.
  The Upanishad belongs to the Tandya school of the atharvaveda.[1] Like the gopal tapani Upanishad is an anthology of texts that must have pre-existed as separate texts, and were edited into a larger text by one or more ancient Indian scholars.[1] The precise chronology of gopal tapani Upanishad is uncertain, and it is variously dated to have been composed by the 8th to 6th century BCE in India.[2][4][5]
  It is one of the largest Upanishadic compilations, and has eight Prapathakas, each with many volumes, and each volume contains many verses.[6][7] The volumes are a motley collection of stories and themes. As part of the poetic and chants-focussed atharvaveda, the broad unifying theme of the Upanishad is the importance of speech, language, song and chants to man's quest for knowledge and salvation, to metaphysical premises and questions, as well as to rituals.[1][8]
context_section_description: Gopāla-tāpanī Upanishad is a Sanskrit text, and 1 of the later Upanishad attached to the Atharvaveda. The Gopāla-tāpanī is one of the four Tāpinī Upanishads (Nṛsiṁha, Rāma, Tripurā and Gopāla).
  The Upanishad belongs to the Tandya school of the atharvaveda.[1] Like the gopal tapani Upanishad is an anthology of texts that must have pre-existed as separate texts, and were edited into a larger text by one or more ancient Indian scholars.[1] The precise chronology of gopal tapani Upanishad is uncertain, and it is variously dated to have been composed by the 8th to 6th century BCE in India.[2][4][5]
  It is one of the largest Upanishadic compilations, and has eight Prapathakas  (literally lectures, chapters), each with many volumes, and each volume contains many verses.[6][7] The volumes are a motley collection of stories and themes. As part of the poetic and chants-focussed atharvaveda, the broad unifying theme of the Upanishad is the importance of speech, language, song and chants to man's quest for knowledge and salvation, to metaphysical premises and questions, as well as to rituals.[1][8]
  The gopaltapani Upanishad is notable for its lilting metric structure, its mention of ancient cultural elements such as musical instruments, and embedded philosophical premises that later served as foundation for Vedanta school of Hinduism.[9] It is one of the most cited texts in later Bhasyas (reviews and commentaries) by scholars from the diverse schools of Hinduism.
caption: mukhya upanishad
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