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# Kauṣītaki Upaniṣad 3.5.4

Kauṣītakibrāhmaṇopaniṣad 3.5.4

- **Language:** Sanskrit

### [3.5.4](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.upanisad.mukhya.kausitaki.3.5.4)

tasya gandhaḥ parastāt prativihitā bhūtamātrā /

> Breath (\_prāṇa\_) is one portion thereof taken out. Odor is its externally correlated existential element.  
> — 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.p42) — Robert Ernest Hume 1921, English
- [The Upanishads, Part I (SBE 1)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.upanisad.mukhya.kausitaki~en-muller.3.5) — Friedrich Max Müller 1879, English

## Commentaries (3)

- [Kauṣītakyupaniṣaddīpikā (Śaṅkarānanda)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.upanisad.mukhya.kausitaki!sankarananda.3.4) — Śaṅkarānanda, Sanskrit
- [Commentary of Upaniṣadbrahmayogin](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.upanisad.mukhya.kausitaki!upanisadbrahmayogin.3.5) — Upaniṣadbrahmayogin 1700, Sanskrit
- [Kauṣītakyupaniṣadbhāṣya (Raṅgarāmānuja)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.upanisad.mukhya.kausitaki!rangaramanuja) — Raṅgarāmānuja Muni, Sanskrit

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