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# Kauṣītaki Upaniṣad 3.7.16

Kauṣītakibrāhmaṇopaniṣad 3.7.16

- **Language:** Sanskrit

### [3.7.16](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.upanisad.mukhya.kausitaki.3.7.16)

na hi prajñāpetau hastau karma kiñcana prajñāpayeyātām /

> For truly, apart from intelligence the two hands would not make cognizant of any action whatsoever. 'My (me) mind was elsewhere,' one says (āha); 'I (aham) did not cognize (prājñāsiṣam) that action.'  
> — 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.p55) — Robert Ernest Hume 1921, English
- [The Upanishads, Part I (SBE 1)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.upanisad.mukhya.kausitaki~en-muller.3.7) — Friedrich Max Müller 1879, English

## Commentaries (1)

- [Kauṣītakyupaniṣadbhāṣya (Raṅgarāmānuja)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.upanisad.mukhya.kausitaki!rangaramanuja.3.56.p1) — Raṅgarāmānuja Muni 1500, Sanskrit

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