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Of what family, pray, am I?’ > — Robert Ernest Hume 1921, The Thirteen Principal Upanishads ### [4.4.2](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.upanisad.mukhya.chandogya.4.4.2) sā hainam uvāca \ nāham etad veda tāta yadgotras tvam asi \ bahv aham carantī paricāriṇī yauvane tvām alabhe \ sāham etan na veda yadgotras tvam asi \ jabālā tu nāmāham asmi \ satyakāmo nāma tvam asi \ sa satyakāmao eva jābālo bruvīthā iti \\404.2\ > 2. Then she said to him: ‘I do not know this, my dear—of what family you are. In my youth, when I went about a great deal serving as a maid, I got you. So I do not know of what family you are. However, I am Jabālā by name; you are Satyakāma by name. So you may speak of yourself as Satyakāma Jābāla.’ > — Robert Ernest Hume 1921, The Thirteen Principal Upanishads ### [4.4.3](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.upanisad.mukhya.chandogya.4.4.3) sa ha hāridrumataṃ gautamam etyovāca \ brahmacaryaṃ bhagavati vatsyāmi \ upeyāṃ bhagavantam iti \\404.3\ > 3. Then he went to Hāridrumata Gautama, and said: ‘I will live the life of a student of sacred knowledge. I will become a pupil of yours, Sir.’ > — Robert Ernest Hume 1921, The Thirteen Principal Upanishads ### [4.4.4](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.upanisad.mukhya.chandogya.4.4.4) taṃ ha uvāca kiṃgotro nu somya asi iti \ sa ha uvāca \ na aham etad veda bho yadgotro 'ham asmi \ apṛcchaṃ mātaram \ sā mā pratyabravīt bahv aham carantī paricariṇī yauvane tvām alabhe \ sāham etan na veda yadgotras tvam asi \ jabālā tu nāmāham asmi \ satyakāmo nāma tvam asi iti \ so 'haṃ satyakāmo jābālo 'smi bho iti \\404.4\ > 4. To him he then said: ‘Of what family, pray, are you, my dear?’ > — Robert Ernest Hume 1921, The Thirteen Principal Upanishads > Then he said: ‘I do not know this, Sir, of what family I am. I asked my mother. She answered me: “In my youth, when I went about a great deal serving as a maid, I got you. So I do not know this, of what family you are. However, I am Jabālā by name; you are Satyakāma by name.” So I am Satyakāma Jābāla, Sir.’ > — Robert Ernest Hume 1921, The Thirteen Principal Upanishads ### [4.4.5](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.upanisad.mukhya.chandogya.4.4.5) taṃ ha uvāca \ na etad abrahmaṇo vivaktum arhati \ samidhaṃ somyāhara \ upa tvā neṣye na satyād agā iti \ tam upanīya kṛśānām abalānāṃ catuḥśatā gā nirākṛtya uvāca imāḥ somya anusaṃvrajeti \ tā abhiprasthāpayann uvāca \ na asahasreṇāvarteyeti \ sa ha varṣagaṇaṃ provāsa \ tā yadā sahasraṃ sampeduḥ \\404.5\ > 5. To him he then said: ‘A non-Brahman (a-brāhmaṇa) would not be able to explain thus. Bring the fuel, my dear. I will receive you as a pupil. You have not deviated from the truth.’ > — Robert Ernest Hume 1921, The Thirteen Principal Upanishads > After having received him as a pupil, he separated out four hundred lean, weak cows and said: ‘Follow these, my dear.’ > — Robert Ernest Hume 1921, The Thirteen Principal Upanishads > As he was driving them on, he said: ‘I may not return without a thousand.’ So he lived away a number of years. When they came to be a thousand, > — Robert Ernest Hume 1921, The Thirteen Principal Upanishads ## Translations (2) - [The Thirteen Principal Upanishads](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.upanisad.mukhya.chandogya~en-hume.4.4.p2) — Robert Ernest Hume 1921, English - [The Upanishads, Part I (SBE 1)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.upanisad.mukhya.chandogya~en-muller.4.4.1) — Friedrich Max Müller 1879, English ## Commentaries (7) - [Chāndogyopaniṣadbhāṣya](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.upanisad.mukhya.chandogya!sankara.477.5) — Śaṅkara, Sanskrit - [Chāndogyaprakāśikā (Raṅgarāmānuja)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.upanisad.mukhya.chandogya!rangaramanuja.4.4.1) — Raṅgarāmānuja Muni 1500, Sanskrit - [Padapāṭha (sandhi-resolved text, TITUS)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.upanisad.mukhya.chandogya!padapatha.4.4.1) — Sanskrit - [Bhāṣya of Śiva Śaṃkara Kāvyatīrtha](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.upanisad.mukhya.chandogya!siva-samkara-kavyatirtha.63.1) — Śiva Śaṃkara Kāvyatīrtha, Sanskrit - [Khaṇḍārtha](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.upanisad.mukhya.chandogya!raghavendra-tirtha.50.1) — Rāghavendra Tīrtha 1615, Sanskrit - [Chāndogyabhāṣya (Madhva)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.upanisad.mukhya.chandogya!madhva.34.5) — Madhva, Sanskrit - [Commentary of Upaniṣadbrahmayogin](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.upanisad.mukhya.chandogya!upanisadbrahmayogin.4.4) — Upaniṣadbrahmayogin 1700, Sanskrit ## Linked texts (22) - [Īśādiviṃśottaraśatopaniṣadaḥ](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.upanisad.isadivimsottarasatopanisadah.1.34_830) — Sanskrit - [History of Dharmaśāstra (Ancient and Mediaeval Religious and Civil Law in India)](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.kane-1930.v2.c23.261) — P. 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