[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Indian literature](https://indike.org/pramana/in) › [Vedic Literature](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda) › [Upaniṣads](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.upanisad) › [Principal (early) Upaniṣads](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.upanisad.mukhya) › [Kena Upanishad](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.upanisad.mukhya.kena) › 3.8 # Kena Upanishad 3.8 Kenopaniṣad 3.8 - **Language:** Sanskrit ### [3.8](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.upanisad.mukhya.kena.3.8) tad abhyadravat tam abhyavadat ko 'sīti vāyur vā aham asmīty abravīn mātariśvā vā aham asmīti > 20 (7) Then they said to Vāyu (Wind): ‘Vāyu, find out this—what this wonderful being is.’ ‘So be it.’ 21 (8). He ran unto It. Unto him It spoke: ‘Who are you?’ ‘Verily, I am Vāyu,’ he said. ‘Verily, I am Mātariśvan.’ 22 (9). ‘In such as you what power is there?’ ‘Indeed, I might carry off everything here, whatever there is here in the earth.’ > — Robert Ernest Hume 1921, The Thirteen Principal Upanishads - [Previous: 3.7](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.upanisad.mukhya.kena.3.7) - [Next: 3.9](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.upanisad.mukhya.kena.3.9) - [Up: 3](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.upanisad.mukhya.kena.3) ## Translations (2) - [The Thirteen Principal Upanishads](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.upanisad.mukhya.kena~en-hume.0.p25) — Robert Ernest Hume 1921, English - [The Upanishads, Part I (SBE 1): Talavakâra-upanishad](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.upanisad.mukhya.kena~en-muller.3.8) — Friedrich Max Müller 1879, English ## Commentaries (6) - [Padapāṭha (sandhi-resolved text, TITUS)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.upanisad.mukhya.kena!padapatha.3.8) — Sanskrit - [Kenopaniṣatpadabhāṣya](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.upanisad.mukhya.kena!sankara) — Śaṅkara, Sanskrit - [Kenopaniṣadvākyabhāṣya](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.upanisad.mukhya.kena!sankara-vakya) — Śaṅkara, Sanskrit - [Kenaprakāśikā (Raṅgarāmānuja)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.upanisad.mukhya.kena!rangaramanuja) — Raṅgarāmānuja Muni, 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 --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.upanisad.mukhya.kena.3.8](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.upanisad.mukhya.kena.3.8) · Pramāṇa