[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) › [Maitrayaniya Upanishad](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.upanisad.mukhya.maitri) › 7.1 # Maitrayaniya Upanishad 7.1 Maitrāyaṇīyopaniṣad 7.1 - **Language:** Sanskrit ### [7.1](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.upanisad.mukhya.maitri.7.1) prapāṭhaka 7 | agnirgāyatraṃ trivṛdrathantaraṃ vasantaḥ prāṇo nakṣatrāṇi vasavaḥ purastādudyanti tapanti varṣanti stuvanti punarviśnati antarvivaeṇekṣanti acintyo'mūrto gabhīro guṇabhugbhayo'nirvṛttiryogīśvaraḥ sarvajño magho'prameyo'nādyantaḥ śrīmān ajo dhīmānanirdeśyaḥ sarvasṛk sarvasyātmā sarvabhuk sarvasyeśānaḥ sarvasyāntarāntaraḥ || > 1. Agni, the Gāyatrī meter, the Trivṛit hymn, the Rathantara chant, the spring season, the Prāṇa breath, the stars, the Vasu gods, issue forth to the east; they shine, they rain, they praise, they enter again within and peer through an opening. > — Robert Ernest Hume 1921, The Thirteen Principal Upanishads > He is unthinkable, formless, unfathomable, concealed, unimpeachable, compact, inpenetrable, devoid of Qualities, pure, brilliant, enjoying Qualities (\_guṇa\_), fearful, unproduced, a master Yogī, omniscient, munificent, immeasurable, without beginning or end, illustrious, unborn, intelligent, indescribable, the creator of all, the soul (\_ātman\_) of all, the enjoyer of all, the lord of all, the inmost being of everything. > — Robert Ernest Hume 1921, The Thirteen Principal Upanishads - [Previous: 6.c](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.upanisad.mukhya.maitri.6.c) - [Next: 7.2](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.upanisad.mukhya.maitri.7.2) - [Up: 7](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.upanisad.mukhya.maitri.7) ## Translations (2) - [The Thirteen Principal Upanishads](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.upanisad.mukhya.maitri~en-hume.7.p2) — 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.7.1) — Friedrich Max Müller 1884, English ## Commentaries (3) - [Maitryupaniṣaddīpikā (Rāmatīrtha)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.upanisad.mukhya.maitri!ramatirtha.7.p1) — Rāmatīrtha 1550, Sanskrit - [Commentary of Upaniṣadbrahmayogin](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.upanisad.mukhya.maitri!upanisadbrahmayogin) — Upaniṣadbrahmayogin, Sanskrit - [Maitrāyaṇīyopaniṣadvivaraṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.upanisad.mukhya.maitri!upanisad-brahmayogi) — Upaniṣadbrahmayogī, Sanskrit ## Linked texts (5) - [Īśādiviṃśottaraśatopaniṣadaḥ](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.upanisad.isadivimsottarasatopanisadah.3.39_130) — Sanskrit - [Maitrāyaṇīyāraṇyaka](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.aranyaka.maitrayaniya.7.p1) — Sanskrit - [Maitrāyaṇīsaṃhitā (ed. Śrīpāda Dāmodara Sātavalekara)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.samhita.krsnayajur*maitrayani*satavalekara1941.374.1) — Sanskrit - [Upaniṣatsaṃgraha](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.upanisad.upanisatsamgraha.43.1) — Sanskrit - [Maitrāyaṇīyopaniṣad or Maitryupaniṣad](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.upanisad.mukhya.maitrayaniyopanisadormaitryupanisad.6.1) — Sanskrit ## Discussed in (1) - [The Philosophy of the Upanishads](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.religion.deussen-1906.c11.s2.t4.2) — Deussen & Geden 1899, English --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.upanisad.mukhya.maitri.7.1](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.upanisad.mukhya.maitri.7.1) · Pramāṇa