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# Kena (Talavakāra) Upaniṣad 1.3

Kenopaniṣad 1.3

- **Language:** Sanskrit

### [1.3](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.upanisad.mukhya.kena.1.3)

na tatra cakṣur gacchati  
na vāg gacchati no manaḥ  
na vidmo na vījānīmo  
yathaitad anuśiṣyāt

> 3. There the eye goes not ;  
> Speech goes not, nor the mind.  
> We know not, we understand not  
> How one would teach It.  
> — 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.kena~en-hume.0.p4) — Robert Ernest Hume 1921, English
- [The Upanishads, Part I (SBE 1): Talavakâra-upanishad](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.upanisad.mukhya.kena~en-muller.1.3) — Friedrich Max Müller 1879, English

## Commentaries (6)

- [Kenaprakāśikā (Raṅgarāmānuja)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.upanisad.mukhya.kena!rangaramanuja.1.p99) — Raṅgarāmānuja Muni 1500, Sanskrit
- [Padapāṭha (sandhi-resolved text, TITUS)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.upanisad.mukhya.kena!padapatha.1.3) — Sanskrit
- [Commentary of Upaniṣadbrahmayogin](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.upanisad.mukhya.kena!upanisadbrahmayogin.1.8.1) — Upaniṣadbrahmayogin 1700, Sanskrit
- [Kenopaniṣadvākyabhāṣya](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.upanisad.mukhya.kena!sankara-vakya.1.3) — Śaṅkara, Sanskrit
- [Khaṇḍārtha](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.upanisad.mukhya.kena!raghavendra-tirtha.p4) — Rāghavendra Tīrtha 1615, Sanskrit
- [Kenopaniṣatpadabhāṣya](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.upanisad.mukhya.kena!sankara) — Śaṅkara, Sanskrit

## Linked texts (5)

- [Indian Philosophy](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.religion.radhakrishnan-1923.v1.c10.s1.44) — S. Radhakrishnan, English
- [Life in Ancient India as Depicted in the Jain Canons, with Commentaries: An Administrative, Economic, Social and Geographical Survey](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.jain-1947.c5.s2.5) — Jagdish Chandra Jain, English
- [Studies in the Origins of Buddhism](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.religion.pande-1957.c13.306) — Govind Chandra Pande, English
- [The System of the Vedânta according to Bâdarâyana's Brahma-Sûtras and Çankara's Commentary](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.religion.deussen-1912.c6.s8.t3.5) — Paul Deussen & Charles Johnston, English
- [A Constructive Survey of Upanishadic Philosophy](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.religion.ranade-1926.c4.s5.8) — R. D. Ranade, English

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