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# Kauṣītaki Upaniṣad 2.8a\_-8.1

Kauṣītakibrāhmaṇopaniṣad 2.8a\_-8.1

- **Language:** Sanskrit

### [2.8a\_-8.1](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.upanisad.mukhya.kausitaki.2.8a_-8.1)

atha māsi māsy amāvāsyāyāṃ paścāc candramasaṃ dṛśyamānam upatiṣṭhetaitayaivāvṛtā haritatṛṇe vā pratyasyati /

> 8. Now, month by month on the night of the new moon when it comes around one should, in the same manner, worship the moon as it appears in the west; or he casts two blades of green grass toward it, saying:—  
> — Robert Ernest Hume 1921, The Thirteen Principal Upanishads

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## Translations (1)

- [The Thirteen Principal Upanishads](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.upanisad.mukhya.kausitaki~en-hume.2.p45) — Robert Ernest Hume 1921, English

## Commentaries (3)

- [Kauṣītakyupaniṣaddīpikā (Śaṅkarānanda)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.upanisad.mukhya.kausitaki!sankarananda.2.7.1) — Śaṅkarānanda, Sanskrit
- [Commentary of Upaniṣadbrahmayogin](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.upanisad.mukhya.kausitaki!upanisadbrahmayogin) — Upaniṣadbrahmayogin, Sanskrit
- [Kauṣītakyupaniṣadbhāṣya (Raṅgarāmānuja)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.upanisad.mukhya.kausitaki!rangaramanuja) — Raṅgarāmānuja Muni, Sanskrit

## Linked texts (4)

- [Śāṅkhāyanāraṇyaka](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.aranyaka.kausitaki.4.8) — Sanskrit
- [Kaiṣītaki ?](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.upanisad.mukhya.kaisitaki.2.8) — Sanskrit
- [Kauṣītakopaniṣad](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.upanisad.mukhya.kausitakopanisad.2.8) — Sanskrit
- [Śāṅkhāyanīyopaniṣad](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.upanisad.mukhya.sankhayaniyopanisad.5.8) — Sanskrit

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