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# Muṇḍaka Upaniṣad 1.2.4

Muṇḍakopaniṣad 1.2.4

- **Language:** Sanskrit

### [1.2.4](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.upanisad.mukhya.mundaka.1.2.4)

kālī karālī ca manojavā ca sulohitā yā ca sudhūmravarṇā.  
sphuliṅginī viśvarucī ca devī lelāyamānā iti sapta jihvāḥ.

> 4. The Black (kālī), and the Terrible, and the Swift-as-Thought,  
> The Very-red, and the Very-smoky-colored,  
> The Scintillating, and the All-formed, divine one,  
> Are the seven so-called flickering tongues \[of flame\].  
> — 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.mundaka~en-hume.1.2.p5) — Robert Ernest Hume 1921, English
- [The Upanishads, Part II (SBE 15)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.upanisad.mukhya.mundaka~en-muller.1.2.4) — Friedrich Max Müller 1884, English

## Commentaries (4)

- [Muṇḍakopaniṣadbhāṣya](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.upanisad.mukhya.mundaka!sankara.2.2.3-2) — Śaṅkara, Sanskrit
- [Muṇḍakaprakāśikā (Raṅgarāmānuja)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.upanisad.mukhya.mundaka!rangaramanuja.1.4.4.p1) — Raṅgarāmānuja Muni 1500, Sanskrit
- [Padapāṭha (sandhi-resolved text, TITUS)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.upanisad.mukhya.mundaka!padapatha.1.2.4) — Sanskrit
- [Commentary of Upaniṣadbrahmayogin](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.upanisad.mukhya.mundaka!upanisadbrahmayogin.2.4) — Upaniṣadbrahmayogin 1700, Sanskrit

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