Brihadaranyaka Upanishad 4.5.1
Bṛhadāraṇyakopaniṣad 4.5.1
- Language
- Sanskrit
4.5.1
atha ha yājñavalkyasya dve bhārye babhūvaturmaitreyī ca kātyāyanī ca tayorha maitreyī brahmavādinī babhūba strīprajñaiva tarhi kātyāyanyatha ha yājñavalkyo'nyadvṛ ttamupākariṣyan
Now Yâjñavalkya had two wives, Maitreyi and Kâtyâyani. Of these Maitreyi used to discuss Brahman, (while) Kâtyâyani had then an essentially feminine outlook. One day Yâjñavalkya, with a view to embracing another life,
Translations (3)
- The Bṛhadāraṇyaka Upaniṣad, with the Commentary of Śaṅkarācārya — Swami Madhavananda 1934, English
- The Upanishads, Part II (SBE 15) — Friedrich Max Müller 1884, English
- The Upanishads — Swami Nikhilananda 1949, English
Commentaries (10)
- Bṛhadāraṇyakopaniṣadbhāṣya — Śaṅkara, Sanskrit
- Bṛhadāraṇyakabhāṣya (Madhva) — Madhva, Sanskrit
- Padapāṭha (sandhi-resolved text) — Sanskrit
- Khaṇḍārtha — Rāghavendra Tīrtha 1615, Sanskrit
- Mitākṣarā — Nityānanda Āśrama 1820, Sanskrit
- Commentary of Upaniṣadbrahmayogin — Upaniṣadbrahmayogin 1700, Sanskrit
- Bṛhadāraṇyakaprakāśikā (Raṅgarāmānuja) — Raṅgarāmānuja Muni, Sanskrit
- Bṛhadāraṇyakaṭīkā — Sanskrit
- Commentary of Śaṅkarācārya of Śaṅkarācārya — Śaṅkarācārya, Sanskrit
- Dīpikā of Vidyāraṇya — Mādhava, Sanskrit
Discussed in (4)
- History of Dharmaśāstra (Ancient and Mediaeval Religious and Civil Law in India) — Kane 1930, English
- Vedic Index of Names and Subjects — Macdonell & Keith 1912, English
- Early Monastic Buddhism — Dutt 1941, English
- The Philosophy of the Upanishads — Deussen & Geden 1899, English