Upaplavya—the capital city of King Virāṭa.Prabhupada ›Glossary›-U-›Upaplavya-the capital city of Upaplavya-the capital city of King Virata. Link to this page: https://prabhupadabooks.com/glossary/u/upaplavya-the-capital-city-of-king-virata Previous: Upanisads-one-hundred and eight Sanskrit treatises that embody the philosophy of the Vedas. Considered the most significant philosophical sections and crest jewels of the Vedas, the Upanisads are found in the Aranyaka and Brahmana portions of the Vedas. They are theistic and contain the realizations and teachings of great sages of antiquity; The term upanisad literally means that which is learned by sitting close to the teacher. The texts of the Upanisads teach the philosophy of the Absolute Truth (Brahman) to those seeking liberation from birth and death, and the study of the Upanisads is known as Vedanta, the conclusion of the Veda. The contents of the Upanisads are extremely difficult to fathom; they are to be understood only under the close guidance of a spiritual master (guru). Because the Upanisads contain many apparently contradictory statements, the great sage Vyasa systematized the Upanisadic teachings in the Vedanta-sutra. His natural commentary on the Vedanta-sutra is the Srimad-Bhagavatam. See Srimad-Bhagavatam, Vedanta-sutra. Next: Uparasa-the first kind of rasabhasa, occurring when one tastes one kind of mellow and something extra is imposed.