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Kauṣītaki Upaniṣad 4.1

Kauṣītakibrāhmaṇopaniṣad 4.1

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Sanskrit

4.1.1

atha ha vai gārgyo bālākir anūcānaḥ saṃspaṣṭa āsa /

1. Now then, verily, there was Gārgya Bālāki, famed as learned in the scriptures (anūcāna). He dwelt among the Uśīnaras, among the Satvans and the Matsyas, among the Kurus and the Pañcālas, among the Kāśis and the Videhas.

Robert Ernest Hume 1921, The Thirteen Principal Upanishads

4.1.2

so 'vasad uśinareṣu satvanmatsyeṣu kurupañcāleṣu kāśivideheṣv iti /

4.1.3

sa hājātaśatruṃ kāśyam āvrajyovāca brahma te bravāṇīti /

He, then, coming to Ajātaśatru, [king] of Kāśi, said: ‘Let me declare Brahma to you.’

Robert Ernest Hume 1921, The Thirteen Principal Upanishads

4.1.4

taṃ hovācājātaśatruḥ sahasraṃ dadmas ta iti /

To him then Ajātaśatru said: ‘A thousand [cows] we give to you! At such a word as this, verily, indeed, people would run together, crying, “A Janaka! A Janaka!”’

Robert Ernest Hume 1921, The Thirteen Principal Upanishads

4.1.5

etasyāṃ vāci janako janaka iti vā u janā dhāvantīti //1//

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