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# Kena Upanishad 4.8

Kenopaniṣad 4.8

- **Language:** Sanskrit

### [4.8](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.upanisad.mukhya.kena.4.8)

tasyai tapo damaḥ karmeti pratiṣṭhā  
vedāḥ sarvāṅgāni  
satyam āyatanam

> Concentration, cessation from sense-objects, rites, etc., are its legs; the Vedas are all its limbs: truth is its abode.  
> — Swami Gambhirananda 1957, Eight Upaniṣads, with the Commentary of Śaṅkarācārya

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## Translations (4)

- [Eight Upaniṣads, with the Commentary of Śaṅkarācārya](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.upanisad.mukhya.kena~en-gambhirananda.4.8) — Swami Gambhirananda 1957, English
- [The Upanishads, Part I (SBE 1): Talavakâra-upanishad](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.upanisad.mukhya.kena~en-muller.4.8) — Friedrich Max Müller 1879, English
- [The Upanishads](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.upanisad.mukhya.kena~en-nikhilananda.4.8) — Swami Nikhilananda 1949, English
- [The Thirteen Principal Upanishads](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.upanisad.mukhya.kena~en-hume.0.p42) — Robert Ernest Hume 1921, English

## Commentaries (6)

- [Kenopaniṣatpadabhāṣya](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.upanisad.mukhya.kena!sankara.4.7.p5) — Śaṅkara, Sanskrit
- [Kenaprakāśikā (Raṅgarāmānuja)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.upanisad.mukhya.kena!rangaramanuja.4.8.p1) — Raṅgarāmānuja Muni 1500, Sanskrit
- [Padapāṭha (sandhi-resolved text)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.upanisad.mukhya.kena!padapatha.4.8) — Sanskrit
- [Commentary of Upaniṣadbrahmayogin](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.upanisad.mukhya.kena!upanisadbrahmayogin.3.9.4) — Upaniṣadbrahmayogin 1700, Sanskrit
- [Kenopaniṣadvākyabhāṣya](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.upanisad.mukhya.kena!sankara-vakya.4.8) — Śaṅkara, Sanskrit
- [Khaṇḍārtha](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.upanisad.mukhya.kena!raghavendra-tirtha) — Rāghavendra Tīrtha, Sanskrit

## Discussed in (1)

- [Studies in the Origins of Buddhism](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.religion.pande-1957.c13.248) — Pande 1957, English

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