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Kena Upanishad

1yadi manyase suvedeti dabhramevāpi nūnaṃ tvaṃ vettha brahmaṇo rūpaṃ yadasya tvaṃ yadasya deveṣvatha nu mīmāṃsyameva te manye viditaṃ ||

2nāhaṃ manye suvedeti no na vedeti veda ca | yo nastadveda tadveda no na vedeti veda ca ||

3yasyāmataṃ tasya mataṃ mataṃ yasya na veda saḥ | avijñātaṃ vijānatāṃ vijñātamavijānatāṃ ||

4pratibodhaviditaṃ matamamṛtatvaṃ hi vindate | ātmanā vindate vīryaṃ vidyayā vindate'mṛtaṃ ||

5iha cedavedīdatha satyamasti na cedihāvedīnmahatī vinaṣṭiḥ | bhūteṣu bhūteṣu vicitya dhīrāḥ pretyāsmāllokādamṛtā bhavanti ||

Edition source ↗ · Public-domain historical print; fresh normalized IAST transcription prepared from the scan for this project
E. Roer (ed.), Bibliotheca Indica VIII (Calcutta: J. Thomas, Baptist Mission Press,1850), Kena/Talavakāra mūla, printed pp.32–71; scan: Asiatic Society/Digital Library of India via Internet Archive. Fresh visual transcription for this project; normalization and source-reading notes retained. No modern Sanskrit e-text used as transcription input.