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# Kena (Talavakāra) Upaniṣad 4.9

Kenopaniṣad 4.9

- **Language:** Sanskrit

### [4.9](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.upanisad.mukhya.kena.4.9)

yo vā etām evaṃ vedāpahatya pāpmānam  
anante svarge loke jyeye pratitiṣṭhati pratitiṣṭhati

> 34 (9). He, verily, who knows it \[i. e. the mystic doctrine\] thus, striking off evil (\*pāpman\*), becomes established in the most excellent, endless, heavenly world—yea, he becomes established!  
> — 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.p43) — Robert Ernest Hume 1921, English
- [The Upanishads, Part I (SBE 1): Talavakâra-upanishad](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.upanisad.mukhya.kena~en-muller.4.9) — Friedrich Max Müller 1879, English

## Commentaries (6)

- [Kenopaniṣatpadabhāṣya](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.upanisad.mukhya.kena!sankara.4.9-2) — Śaṅkara, Sanskrit
- [Padapāṭha (sandhi-resolved text, TITUS)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.upanisad.mukhya.kena!padapatha.4.9) — Sanskrit
- [Commentary of Upaniṣadbrahmayogin](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.upanisad.mukhya.kena!upanisadbrahmayogin.3.9.5) — Upaniṣadbrahmayogin 1700, Sanskrit
- [Kenopaniṣadvākyabhāṣya](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.upanisad.mukhya.kena!sankara-vakya.4.9) — Śaṅkara, Sanskrit
- [Kenaprakāśikā (Raṅgarāmānuja)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.upanisad.mukhya.kena!rangaramanuja) — Raṅgarāmānuja Muni, Sanskrit
- [Khaṇḍārtha](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.upanisad.mukhya.kena!raghavendra-tirtha) — Rāghavendra Tīrtha, Sanskrit

## Linked texts (2)

- [Studies in the Origins of Buddhism](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.religion.pande-1957.c13.271) — Govind Chandra Pande, English
- [The Religions of India](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.religion.hopkins-1895.c16.55) — Edward Washburn Hopkins, English

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