|Date of composition||Before mid first millennium BCE| |Place of
composition (ancient name)||Videha, Mithila, Mathura, Delhi|
|Place of composition (modern name)||North (eastern) India,
Southern Nepal| |Type of Upanishad||Mukhya Upanishad|
|Associated Veda||Shukla Yajurveda| |Associated
Brahmana||Shatapatha Brahmana| |Associated Aranyaka||Brihad
Aranyaka| |Core philosophy||The basic identity of the Atman|
|Commented upon by||Adi Shankara| |Popular verse||"Aham
brahmāsmi"| |Next Upanishad||Chandogya Upanishad| |Part of a
series on| The Bṛhadāraṇyaka Upanishad (Sanskrit: बृहदारण्यक
उपनिषद्) is one of the older, "primary" (mukhya) Upanishads. It
is contained within the Shatapatha Brahmana, and its status as
an independent Upanishad may be considered a secondary
extraction of a portion of the Brahmana text. This makes it one
of the oldest texts of the Upanishad corpus. It is largely the
oldest Upanishad, excluding some parts which were composed after
the Chandogya. and the largely neglected Jaiminiya Upanisad Bra