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# Kena Upanishad 3.2

Kenopaniṣad 3.2

- **Language:** Sanskrit

### [3.2](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.upanisad.mukhya.kena.3.2)

tad dhaiṣāṃ vijajñau  
tebhyo ha prādur babhūva  
tan na vyajānata  
kim idaṃ yakṣam iti

> 15 (2). Now, It understood this of them. It appeared to them. They did not understand It. ‘What wonderful being (yakṣa) is this?’ they said.  
> — 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.p22) — Robert Ernest Hume 1921, English
- [The Upanishads, Part I (SBE 1): Talavakâra-upanishad](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.upanisad.mukhya.kena~en-muller.3.2) — Friedrich Max Müller 1879, English

## Commentaries (6)

- [Kenopaniṣatpadabhāṣya](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.upanisad.mukhya.kena!sankara.3.1-2.p1) — Śaṅkara, Sanskrit
- [Kenaprakāśikā (Raṅgarāmānuja)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.upanisad.mukhya.kena!rangaramanuja.3.2) — Raṅgarāmānuja Muni 1500, Sanskrit
- [Padapāṭha (sandhi-resolved text, TITUS)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.upanisad.mukhya.kena!padapatha.3.2) — Sanskrit
- [Commentary of Upaniṣadbrahmayogin](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.upanisad.mukhya.kena!upanisadbrahmayogin.2.12) — Upaniṣadbrahmayogin 1700, Sanskrit
- [Kenopaniṣadvākyabhāṣya](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.upanisad.mukhya.kena!sankara-vakya.3.2) — Śaṅkara, Sanskrit
- [Khaṇḍārtha](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.upanisad.mukhya.kena!raghavendra-tirtha) — Rāghavendra Tīrtha, Sanskrit

## Linked texts (1)

- [Īśādyupaniṣadaḥ](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.upanisad.mukhya.isadyupanisadah.4.2) — Sanskrit

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