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The Muktikā (“deliverance”, see mukti) Upanishad is the final Upanishad of the Hindu canon of 108 texts of the Advaita school, and it is itself the source of this canon. It predates 1656, when the canon was recorded by Dara
Shikoh.

Categories

In this canon,

• 10 Upanishads are associated with the Rigveda and have the Shānti beginning vaṇme-manasi.
• 16 Upanishads are associated with the Samaveda and have the Shānti beginning āpyāyantu.
• 19 Upanishads are associated with the Shukla Yajurveda and have the Shānti beginning pūrṇamada.
• 32 Upanishads are associated with the Krishna Yajurveda and have the Shānti beginning sahanāvavatu.
• 31 Upanishads are associated with the Atharvaveda and have the Shānti beginning bhadram-karṇebhiḥ.

The first 10 are grouped as mukhya “principal”. 21 are grouped as Sāmānya Vedānta “common Vedanta“, 23 as Sannyāsa, 9 as Shākta, 14 as Vaishnava, 14 as Shaiva and 17 as Yoga Upanishads.

The Canon

The 108 canonical Upanishads are listed at 1:30-39 (without the associated Vedas):

1. Īṣa, (ŚYV, Mukhya) “The Inner Ruler”
2. Kena (SV, Mukhya) “Who moves the world?”
3. Kaṭha (KYV, Mukhya) “Death as Teacher”
4. Praśna, (AV, Mukhya) “The Breath of Life”
5. Muṇḍaka (AV, Mukhya) “Two modes of Knowing”
6. Māṇḍūkya (AV, Mukhya) “Consciousness and its phases”
7. Taittirīya (KYV, Mukhya) “From Food to Joy”
8. Aitareya, (ṚV Mukhya) “The Microcosm of Man”
9. Chāndogya (SV, Mukhya) “Song and Sacrifice”
10. Bṛhadāraṇyaka (ŚYV, Mukhya)
11. Brahma (KYV, Sannyasa)
12. Kaivalya (KYV, Shaiva)[1]
13. Jābāla (ŚYV, Sannyasa)
14. Śvetāśvatara (KYV, Sannyasa) “The Faces of God”
15. Haṃsa (ŚYV, Yoga)
16. Āruṇeya (SV, Sannyasa)
17. Garbha (KYV, Sannyasa)
18. Nārāyaṇa (Mahānārāyaṇa) (KYV, Vaishnava)
19. Paramahaṃsa (ŚYV, Sannyasa)
20. Amṛtabindu (KYV, Yoga)
21. Amṛtanāda (KYV, Yoga)
22. Śira (AV, Shaiva)
23. Atharvaśikha (AV, Shaiva)
24. Maitrāyaṇi (SV, Sannyasa)
25. Kauśītāki (ṚV, Samanya)
26. Bṛhajjābāla (AV, Shaiva)
27. Nṛsiṃhatāpanī (AV, Vaishnava)
28. Kālāgnirudra (KYV, Shaiva)
29. Maitreyi (SV, Sannyasa)
30. Subāla (ŚYV, Samanya)
31. Kṣurika (KYV, Yoga)
32. Mantrika (ŚYV, Samanya)
33. Sarvasāra (KYV, Samanya)
34. Nirālamba (ŚYV, Samanya)
35. Śukarahasya (KYV, Samanya)
36. Vajrasūchi (SV, Samanya)
37. Tejobindu (KYV, Sannyasa)
38. Nādabindu (ṚV, Yoga) [2]
39. Dhyānabindu (KYV, Yoga)
40. Brahmavidyā (KYV, Yoga)
41. Yogatattva (KYV, Yoga)
42. Ātmabodha (ṚV, Samanya)
43. Parivrāt (Nāradaparivrājaka) (AV, Sannyasa)
44. Triśikhi (ŚYV, Yoga)
45. Sītā (AV, Shakta)
46. Yogachūḍāmaṇi (SV, Yoga)
47. Nirvāṇa (ṚV, Sannyasa)
48. Maṇḍalabrāhmaṇa (ŚYV, Yoga)
49. Dakṣiṇāmūrti (KYV, Shaiva)
50. Śarabha (AV, Shaiva)
51. Skanda (Tripāḍvibhūṭi) (KYV, Samanya)
52. Mahānārāyaṇa (Tripādvibhuti) (AV, Vaishnava)
53. Advayatāraka (ŚYV, Sannyasa)
54. Rāmarahasya (AV, Vaishnava)
55. Rāmatāpaṇi (AV, Vaishnava)
56. Vāsudeva (SV, Vaishnava)
57. Mudgala (ṚV, Samanya)
58. Śāṇḍilya (AV, Yoga)
59. Paiṅgala (ŚYV, Samanya)
60. Bhikṣu (ŚYV, Sannyasa)
61. Mahad (SV, Samanya)
62. Śārīraka (KYV, Samanya)
63. Yogaśikhā (KYV Yoga)
64. Turīyātīta (ŚYV, Sannyasa)
65. Sannyāsa (SV, Sannyasa)
66. Paramahaṃsaparivrājaka (AV, Sannyasa)
67. Akṣamālika (Mālika) (ṚV, Shaiva)
68. Avyakta (SV, Vaishnava)
69. Ekākṣara (KYV, Samanya)
70. Annapūrṇa (AV, Shakta)
71. Sūrya (AV, Samanya)
72. Akṣi (KYV, Samanya)
73. Adhyātmā (ŚYV, Samanya)
74. Kuṇḍika (SV, Sannyasa)
75. Sāvitrī (SV, Samanya)
76. Ātmā (AV, Samanya)
77. Pāśupata (AV, Yoga)
78. Parabrahma (AV, Sannyasa)
79. Avadhūta (KYV, Sannyasa)
80. Devī (AV, Shakta)
81. Tripurātapani (AV, Shakta)
82. Tripura (ṚV, Shakta)
83. Kaṭharudra (KYV, Sannyasa)
84. Bhāvana (AV, Shakta)
85. Rudrahṛdaya (KYV, Shaiva)
86. Yogakuṇḍalini (KYV, Yoga)
87. Bhasma (AV, Shaiva)
88. Rudrākṣa (SV, Shaiva)
89. Gaṇapati (AV, Shaiva)
90. Darśana (SV, Yoga)
91. Tārasāra (ŚYV, Vaishnava)
92. Mahāvākya (AV, Yoga)
93. Pañcabrahma (KYV, Shaiva)
94. Prāṇāgnihotra (KYV, Samanya)
95. Gopālatāpani (AV, Vaishnava)
96. Kṛṣṇa (AV, Vaishnava)
97. Yājñavalkya (ŚYV, Sannyasa)
98. Varāha (KYV, Sannyasa)
99. Śāṭyāyani (ŚYV, Sannyasa)
100. Hayagrīva (AV, Vaishnava)
101. Dattātreya (AV, Vaishnava)
102. Gāruḍa (AV, Vaishnava)
103. Kali-Saṇṭāraṇa (Kali) (KYV, Vaishnava)
104. Jābāla (SV, Shaiva)
105. Saubhāgya (ṚV, Shakta)
106. Sarasvatīrahasya (KYV, Shakta)
107. Bahvṛca (ṚV, Shakta)
108. Muktika (ŚYV, Samanya)

External links

• translation of the Muktika by A. G. Krishna Warrier 108 Upanishads of the Muktika