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# Kena (Talavakāra) Upaniṣad 1.4

Kenopaniṣad 1.4

- **Language:** Sanskrit

### [1.4](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.upanisad.mukhya.kena.1.4)

anyad eva tad viditād  
atho aviditād adhi  
iti śuśruma pūrveṣāṃ  
ye nas tad vyācacakṣire

> Other, indeed, is It than the known,  
> And moreover above the unknown.  
> —Thus have we heard of the ancients (pūrva)  
> Who to us have explained 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.p5) — Robert Ernest Hume 1921, English
- [The Upanishads, Part I (SBE 1): Talavakâra-upanishad](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.upanisad.mukhya.kena~en-muller.1.4) — Friedrich Max Müller 1879, English

## Commentaries (6)

- [Kenopaniṣatpadabhāṣya](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.upanisad.mukhya.kena!sankara.1.1.3.p1) — Śaṅkara, Sanskrit
- [Kenaprakāśikā (Raṅgarāmānuja)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.upanisad.mukhya.kena!rangaramanuja.1.4.p2) — Raṅgarāmānuja Muni 1500, Sanskrit
- [Padapāṭha (sandhi-resolved text, TITUS)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.upanisad.mukhya.kena!padapatha.1.4) — Sanskrit
- [Kenopaniṣadvākyabhāṣya](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.upanisad.mukhya.kena!sankara-vakya.1.4) — Śaṅkara, Sanskrit
- [Khaṇḍārtha](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.upanisad.mukhya.kena!raghavendra-tirtha.p6) — Rāghavendra Tīrtha 1615, Sanskrit
- [Commentary of Upaniṣadbrahmayogin](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.upanisad.mukhya.kena!upanisadbrahmayogin) — Upaniṣadbrahmayogin, Sanskrit

## Linked texts (3)

- [Indian Philosophy](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.religion.radhakrishnan-1923.v1.c10.s1.44) — S. Radhakrishnan, English
- [Studies in the Origins of Buddhism](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.religion.pande-1957.c13.307) — Govind Chandra Pande, English
- [The Philosophy of the Upanishads](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.religion.deussen-1906.c11.s2.t2.32) — Paul Deussen & A. S. Geden, English

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