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Kena Upanishad

1brahma ha devebhyo vijigye tasya ha brahmaṇo vijaye devā amahīyanta ta aikṣantāsmākamevāyaṃ vijayo'smākamevāyaṃ mahimeti ||

2taddhaiṣāṃ vijajñau tebhyo ha prādurbabhūva tanna vyajānata kimidaṃ yakṣamiti ||

3te'gnimabruvan jātaveda etadvijānīhi kimetadyakṣamiti tatheti ||

4tadabhyadravattamabhyavadatko'sītyagnirvā ahamasmītyabravījjātavedā vā ahamasmīti ||

5tasmiṃstvayi kiṃ vīryamityapīdaṃ sarvaṃ daheyaṃ yadidaṃ pṛthivyāmiti ||

6tasmai tṛṇaṃ nidadhāvetaddaheti tadupapreyāya sarvajavena tanna śaśāka dagdhuṃ sa tata eva nivavṛte naitadaśakaṃ vijñātuṃ yadetadyakṣamiti ||

7atha vāyumabruvan vāyavetadvijānīhi kimetadyakṣamiti tatheti ||

8tadabhyadravattamabhyavadatko'sīti vāyurvā ahamasmītyabravīnmātariśvā vā ahamasmīti ||

9tasmiṃstvayi kiṃ vīryamityapīdaṃ sarvamādadīya yadidaṃ pṛthivyāmiti ||

10tasmai tṛṇaṃ nidadhāvetadādatsveti tadupapreyāya sarvajavena tanna śaśākādātuṃ sa tata eva nivavṛte naitadaśakaṃ vijñātuṃ yadetadyakṣamiti ||

11athendramabruvanmaghavannetadvijānīhi kimetadyakṣamiti tatheti tadabhyadravattasmāttirodadhe ||

12sa tasminnevākāśe striyamājagāma bahuśobhamānāmumāṃ haimavatīṃ tāṃ hovāca kimetadyakṣamiti ||

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.