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# Kauṣītaki Upaniṣad 3.4.13

Kauṣītakibrāhmaṇopaniṣad 3.4.13

- **Language:** Sanskrit

### [3.4.13](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.upanisad.mukhya.kausitaki.3.4.13)

yā vai prajñā sa prāṇaḥ /

> As for the breathing spirit (\_prāṇa\_)—verily, that is the intelligence (\_prajñā\_); as for the intelligence—verily, that is the breathing spirit, for together these two dwell in this body, together the two depart.  
> — Robert Ernest Hume 1921, The Thirteen Principal Upanishads

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## Translations (2)

- [The Thirteen Principal Upanishads](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.upanisad.mukhya.kausitaki~en-hume.3.p38) — Robert Ernest Hume 1921, English
- [The Upanishads, Part I (SBE 1)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.upanisad.mukhya.kausitaki~en-muller.3.4) — Friedrich Max Müller 1879, English

## Commentaries (2)

- [Kauṣītakyupaniṣadbhāṣya (Raṅgarāmānuja)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.upanisad.mukhya.kausitaki!rangaramanuja.3.45) — Raṅgarāmānuja Muni 1500, Sanskrit
- [Commentary of Upaniṣadbrahmayogin](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.upanisad.mukhya.kausitaki!upanisadbrahmayogin.3.4) — Upaniṣadbrahmayogin 1700, Sanskrit

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