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# Maitrayaniya Upanishad 3.4

Maitrāyaṇīyopaniṣad 3.4

- **Language:** Sanskrit

### [3.4](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.upanisad.mukhya.maitri.3.4)

athānyatrāpyuktaṃ śarīramidaṃ maithunādevodbhūtaṃ saṃvidapetaṃ niraya eva mūtradvāreṇa niṣkrāmantamasthibhiścitaṃ māṃsenānuliptaṃ carmaṇāvabaddhaṃ viṇmūtrapittakaphamajjāmedovasābhiranyaiśca malairbahubhiḥ paripūrṇaṃ kośa ivāvasanneti ||

> 4. Now, it has elsewhere been said: 'This body arises from sexual intercourse. It passes to development in hell\[-darkness\] (\_niraya\_). Then it comes forth through the urinary opening. It is built up with bones; smeared over with flesh; covered with skin; filled full with feces, urine, bile, phlegm, marrow, fat, grease, and also with many diseases, like a treasure-house with wealth.'  
> — 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.maitri~en-hume.3.p16) — Robert Ernest Hume 1921, English
- [The Upanishads, Part II (SBE 15): Maitrâyaṇa-brâhmaṇa-upanishad](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.upanisad.mukhya.maitri~en-muller.3.4) — Friedrich Max Müller 1884, English

## Commentaries (3)

- [Maitryupaniṣaddīpikā (Rāmatīrtha)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.upanisad.mukhya.maitri!ramatirtha.3.4) — Rāmatīrtha 1550, Sanskrit
- [Commentary of Upaniṣadbrahmayogin](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.upanisad.mukhya.maitri!upanisadbrahmayogin.3.4) — Upaniṣadbrahmayogin 1700, Sanskrit
- [Maitrāyaṇīyopaniṣadvivaraṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.upanisad.mukhya.maitri!upanisad-brahmayogi.3.4) — Upaniṣadbrahmayogī, Sanskrit

## Linked texts (9)

- [Īśādiviṃśottaraśatopaniṣadaḥ](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.upanisad.isadivimsottarasatopanisadah.3.39_78) — Sanskrit
- [Maitrāyaṇīyāraṇyaka](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.aranyaka.maitrayaniya.3.4) — Sanskrit
- [Maitreyopaniṣad](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.upanisad.sannyasa.maitreya.1.3) — Sanskrit
- [Aṣṭottaraśatopaniṣadaḥ](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.upanisad.samanya.astottarasatopanisadah.280.4) — Sanskrit
- [Aṣṭottaraśatopaniṣad](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.upanisad.astottarasatopanisad.34.4) — Sanskrit
- [Maitrāyaṇīsaṃhitā (ed. Śrīpāda Dāmodara Sātavalekara)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.samhita.krsnayajur*maitrayani*satavalekara1941.369.4) — Sanskrit
- [Upaniṣatsaṃgraha](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.upanisad.upanisatsamgraha.40.4) — Sanskrit
- [Maitrāyaṇīyopaniṣad or Maitryupaniṣad](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.upanisad.mukhya.maitrayaniyopanisadormaitryupanisad.2.4) — Sanskrit
- [Maitreyopaniṣad Southern Recension](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.upanisad.sannyasa.maitreyopanisadsouthernrecension.1.3) — Sanskrit

## Discussed in (2)

- [The Great Epic of India: Its Character and Origin](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.literature.hopkins-1901.c5.46) — Hopkins 1901, English
- [The Philosophy of the Upanishads](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.religion.deussen-1906.c11.s2.t6.17) — Deussen & Geden 1899, English

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