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Śrī Sītā Upaniṣad
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Śrī Sītā Upaniṣad

The complete thirty-seven-unit root text in Devanagari and IAST with a fresh English translation

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37

complete units

4

thematic divisions

16

source leaves

This complete root-text edition presents all thirty-seven numbered units of the Sītā Upaniṣad in Devanagari and IAST beside a fresh English translation. The checksum-locked Upaniṣad Brahmayogin witness controls the text and numbering; its Sanskrit commentary remains visible in the separately supplied CC0 facsimile but is outside the scope of this root-text translation.

The photographed witness runs continuously from printed pages 89 through 104 and closes explicitly after root unit 37. A separate 1963 witness resolves the two sandhi-sensitive readings in units 32 and 33; no unresolved reading remains in this release.

Complete contents

The Nature of Sītā · Units 1–10

  1. 1The gods ask about Sītā
  2. 2Sītā as primordial nature
  3. 3The three sounds of her name
  4. 4The meanings of sa and ta
  5. 5The unmanifest becomes manifest
  6. 6Her three manifestations
  7. 7Source, continuance, and return
  8. 8The goddess as root Prakṛti
  9. 9The inquiry into Brahman
  10. 10Sītā as the all

The Three Powers · Units 11–20

  1. 11Will, action, and immediate power
  2. 12Śrī, Bhū, and Nīlā
  3. 13The nourishing lunar form
  4. 14The solar form and the wheel of time
  5. 15The form of fire
  6. 16The form of Śrī
  7. 17The form of Bhū
  8. 18The form of Nīlā
  9. 19The support of the worlds
  10. 20From sound to the mountain of Vaikhānasa

Action and Sacred Learning · Units 21–31

  1. 21The threefold Veda
  2. 22The fourth Veda
  3. 23Triad and Atharvāṅgirasa
  4. 24The branches of the Ṛgveda
  5. 25Branches of Yajus, Sāman, and Atharvan
  6. 26The Vaikhānasa teaching
  7. 27The six limbs of the Veda
  8. 28The auxiliary disciplines
  9. 29Treatises, dharma, history, and Purāṇa
  10. 30The five applied Vedas
  11. 31Twenty-one divisions of knowledge

Presence, Grace, and the Three Modes of Will · Units 32–37

  1. 32The voice arising from Viṣṇu
  2. 33The perennial form of Brahman
  3. 34Power in its immediate presence
  4. 35Yoga-śakti
  5. 36Bhoga-śakti
  6. 37Vīra-śakti, the heroic Lakṣmī