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# Kauṣītaki Upaniṣad 3.8.3-5

Kauṣītakibrāhmaṇopaniṣad 3.8.3-5

- **Language:** Sanskrit

### [3.8.3](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.upanisad.mukhya.kausitaki.3.8.3)

na gandhaṃ vijijñāsīta /

> Smell is not what one should desire to understand. One should know the smeller.  
> — Robert Ernest Hume 1921, The Thirteen Principal Upanishads

### [3.8.4](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.upanisad.mukhya.kausitaki.3.8.4)

ghrātāraṃ vidyāt /

### [3.8.5](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.upanisad.mukhya.kausitaki.3.8.5)

na rūpaṃ vijijñāsīta /

> Form is not what one should desire to understand. One should know the seer.  
> — Robert Ernest Hume 1921, The Thirteen Principal Upanishads

## Translations (2)

- [The Thirteen Principal Upanishads](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.upanisad.mukhya.kausitaki~en-hume.3.p62) — Robert Ernest Hume 1921, English
- [The Upanishads, Part I (SBE 1)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.upanisad.mukhya.kausitaki~en-muller.3.8) — Friedrich Max Müller 1879, English

## Commentaries (1)

- [Kauṣītakyupaniṣadbhāṣya (Raṅgarāmānuja)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.upanisad.mukhya.kausitaki!rangaramanuja.3.59-2) — Raṅgarāmānuja Muni 1500, Sanskrit

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