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Kena Upanishad

1sā brahmeti hovāca brahmaṇo vā etadvijaye mahīyadhvamiti tato haiva vidāñcakāra brahmeti ||

2tasmādvā ete devā atitarāmivānyāndevānyadagnirvāyurindraste hyenannediṣṭhaṃ pasparśuste hyenatprathamo vidāñcakāra brahmeti ||

3tasmādvā indro'titarāmivānyāndevān sa hyenannediṣṭhaṃ pasparśa sa hyenatprathamo vidāñcakāra brahmeti ||

4tasyaiṣa ādeśo yadetadvidyuto vyadyutadā itīti nyamīmiṣadā ityadhidaivataṃ ||

5athādhyātmaṃ yadetadgacchatīva ca mano'nena caitadupasmaratyabhīkṣṇaṃ saṅkalpaḥ ||

6taddha tadvanaṃ nāma tadvanamityupāsitavyaṃ sa yaṃ etadevaṃ vedābhi hainaṃ sarvāṇi bhūtāni saṃvāñchanti ||

7upaniṣadaṃ bho brūhītyuktā ta upaniṣadbrāhmīṃ vāva ta upaniṣadamabrūmeti ||

8tasyai tapo damaḥ karmeti pratiṣṭhā vedāḥ sarvāṅgāni satyamāyatanaṃ ||

9yo vā etāmevaṃ vedāpahatya pāpmānamanante svarge loke jyeye pratitiṣṭhati pratitiṣṭhati ||

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.