---
type: Reference
bundle: shakta-darshana
bundle_version: "0.8.0"
id: devi-upanishad
title: "Devī Upaniṣad — देवी उपनिषद्"
iast: "Devī Upaniṣad"
devanagari: "देवी उपनिषद्"
description: "A principal Śākta Upaniṣad in which the gods ask the Great Goddess who she is and she answers with the Upaniṣadic ultimacy formula: 'I am essentially Brahman' (ahaṃ brahmasvarūpiṇī); the clearest short text uniting Vedāntic vocabulary with Devī theology."
text_type: "Śākta Upaniṣad"
period: "Later Upaniṣadic corpus (one of the Śākta Upaniṣads attached to the Atharva Veda)"
tags: [devi-upanishad, shakta-upanishad, devi, brahman, reference]
related:
  - /concepts/devi.md
  - /concepts/mahadevi.md
  - /concepts/shakti.md
timestamp: "2026-07-01"
okf_version: "0.2"
license: "CC BY-SA 4.0"
---

# Devī Upaniṣad -- देवी उपनिषद्

## Why This Text Is in the Bundle

The Devī Upaniṣad opens with the gods approaching the Great Goddess and asking "who are you, Mahādevī?"; her answer is the bundle's theology in miniature: ahaṃ brahmasvarūpiṇī ("I am essentially Brahman"), from me arises the world as prakṛti and puruṣa, I am void and non-void, I am the Vedas and what is other than them. The text then integrates her with the Vedāntic and Vedic frames (identifying her with the sūkta lineage: it quotes and echoes Devī Sūkta motifs) and carries early Śrī-Vidyā elements (bīja references treated at the doctrinal level in this bundle's mantra files).

## Use in This Bundle

- [devi.md](../concepts/devi.md): the aham brahmasvarūpiṇī citation, the ultimacy claim in Upaniṣadic form
- [mahadevi.md](../concepts/mahadevi.md): the gods-asking-the-Goddess frame as Mahādevī theology
- Cross-bundle: bridges upanishadic-core (v0.6) vocabulary and this bundle; consume both bundles' warnings when this text is cited

## Editions

Available in standard Śākta Upaniṣad collections (108 Upaniṣads compilations; Adyar Library edition of the Śākta Upaniṣads with Upaniṣad-Brahmayogin's commentary).
