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# Different Upanishads 158.3

Different Upaniṣads 158.3

- **Language:** Sanskrit

### [158.3](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.upanisad.mukhya.differentupanisads.158.3)

yadeva te kaścidabravīttacchṛṇavāmetyabravīnmama udaṅkaḥ śaulvāyanaḥ prāṇo vai brahmeti| yathā mātṛmān pitṛmānācāryavān  
brūyāttathā tacchaulvāyano'bravot prāṇo vai brahmeti| aprāṇato  
hi kiṃ syādityabravīttu te tasyāyatanaṃ pratiṣṭhāṃ na me| abravīdityekapādvā etatsamrāḍiti| sa vai no brūhi yājñavalkya  
prāṇa evāyatanamākāśaḥ pratiṣṭhā priyamityenadyupāsīta  
kā priyatā yājñavalkya? prāṇa eva samrāḍiti hovāca  
prāṇasya vai samrāṭ kāmāyājyaṃ yājayatyapratigṛhyasya  
pratigṛhṇātyapi tatra vadhāśaṅkaṃ bhavati yāṃ diśameti prāṇasyaiva samrāṭ kāmāya| prāṇo vai samrāṭ paramaṃ brahma| nainaṃ prāṇo  
jahāti sarvāṇyenaṃ bhūtānyabhikṣaranti devo bhūtvā devānapyeti ya evaṃ vidvānetadupāste| hastyṛṣabham̐ sahasraṃ dadāmīti  
hovāca janako vaidehaḥ| sa hovāca yājñavalkyaḥ pitā  
me'manyata nānanuśiṣya hareteti

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