Traditional attribution
Avadhūta Upaniṣad
अवधूतोपनिषत् (Avadhūtopaniṣad)
Sāṅkṛti asks who the avadhūta is, what his state and conduct are. Dattātreya answers by explaining the name through its syllables (the imperishable, the excellent, the one who has shaken off bonds, the one who is "that") and describes the one who has left castes and stages of life behind, lives in himself, clothed or naked, and makes his body his only altar. It takes up expressions from the Taittirīya Upaniṣad and other Vedic scriptures.
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Authorship note
An Upaniṣad of renunciation in which Sāṅkṛti questions Dattātreya; Olivelle and Sprockhoff date it to around the fourteenth or fifteenth century.
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English
Saṃnyāsa Upaniṣads: Hindu Scriptures on Asceticism and Renunciation
Oxford University Press, Nueva York, 1992
Translation: Patrick Olivelle
ISBN 9780195070453
Sánscrito · संस्कृतम्
Dattatreya
अवधूतोपनिषत्
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- Dattātreyayogaśāstra (Dattātreya's Treatise on Yoga) · 1200
- Jābāladarśana Upaniṣad (Darśana Upaniṣad)
- The teaching of yoga to Alarka (Mārkaṇḍeya Purāṇa)
- The twenty-four teachers: dialogue of the avadhūta with Yadu (Bhāgavata Purāṇa 11.7–9) · 900
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Sources
- Olivelle, Patrick (trad.). The Saṃnyāsa Upaniṣads: Hindu Scriptures on Asceticism and Renunciation. Nueva York: Oxford University Press, 1992 (datación de la Jābāla y de la Avadhūta Upaniṣad, citadas según la Wikipedia en inglés). Texto sánscrito de la Avadhūtopaniṣad en Wikisource.
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