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# Kauṣītaki Upaniṣad 3.7.4

Kauṣītakibrāhmaṇopaniṣad 3.7.4

- **Language:** Sanskrit

### [3.7.4](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.upanisad.mukhya.kausitaki.3.7.4)

na hi prajñāpetaḥ ghrāṇo gandhaṃ kañcana prajñāpayet /

> For truly, apart from intelligence breath would not make cognizant of any odor whatsoever. 'My mind was elsewhere,' one says; 'I did not cognize that odor.'  
> — 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.p51) — 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

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