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# Kena Upanishad 3.3

Kenopaniṣad 3.3

- **Language:** Sanskrit

### [3.3](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.upanisad.mukhya.kena.3.3)

te 'gnim abruvañ  
jātaveda etad vijānīhi  
kim idaṃ yakṣam iti  
tatheti

> 16 (3). They said to Agni (Fire): ‘Jātavedas, find out this—what this wonderful being is.’ ‘So be it.’ 17 (4). He ran unto It. Unto him It spoke: ‘Who are you?’ ‘Verily, I am Agni,’ said he. ‘Verily, I am Jātavedas.’ 18 (5). ‘In such as you what power is there?’ ‘Indeed, I might burn everything here, whatever there is here in the earth!’  
> — 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.p23) — Robert Ernest Hume 1921, English
- [The Upanishads, Part I (SBE 1): Talavakâra-upanishad](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.upanisad.mukhya.kena~en-muller.3.3) — Friedrich Max Müller 1879, English

## Commentaries (6)

- [Kenopaniṣatpadabhāṣya](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.upanisad.mukhya.kena!sankara.3.3-2) — Śaṅkara, Sanskrit
- [Kenaprakāśikā (Raṅgarāmānuja)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.upanisad.mukhya.kena!rangaramanuja.3.3.4) — Raṅgarāmānuja Muni 1500, Sanskrit
- [Padapāṭha (sandhi-resolved text, TITUS)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.upanisad.mukhya.kena!padapatha.3.3) — Sanskrit
- [Kenopaniṣadvākyabhāṣya](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.upanisad.mukhya.kena!sankara-vakya) — Śaṅkara, Sanskrit
- [Commentary of Upaniṣadbrahmayogin](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.upanisad.mukhya.kena!upanisadbrahmayogin) — Upaniṣadbrahmayogin, Sanskrit
- [Khaṇḍārtha](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.upanisad.mukhya.kena!raghavendra-tirtha) — Rāghavendra Tīrtha, Sanskrit

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