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# Muṇḍaka Upaniṣad 2.2.3

Muṇḍakopaniṣad 2.2.3

- **Language:** Sanskrit

### [2.2.3](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.upanisad.mukhya.mundaka.2.2.3)

dhanur gṛhītvaupaniṣadaṃ mahāstraṃ śaraṃ hy upāsāniśitaṃ sandhayīta.  
āyamya tad bhāvagatena cetasā lakṣyaṃ tad evākṣaraṃ somya viddhi.

> 3. Taking as a bow the great weapon of the Upanishad,  
> One should put upon it an arrow sharpened by meditation.  
> Stretching it with a thought directed to the essence of That,  
> Penetrate that Imperishable as the mark, my friend.  
> — 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.2.2.p5) — Robert Ernest Hume 1921, English
- [The Upanishads, Part II (SBE 15)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.upanisad.mukhya.mundaka~en-muller.2.2.3) — Friedrich Max Müller 1884, English

## Commentaries (3)

- [Muṇḍakopaniṣadbhāṣya](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.upanisad.mukhya.mundaka!sankara.4.2.1-2.p6) — Śaṅkara, Sanskrit
- [Muṇḍakaprakāśikā (Raṅgarāmānuja)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.upanisad.mukhya.mundaka!rangaramanuja.2.2.3) — Raṅgarāmānuja Muni 1500, Sanskrit
- [Padapāṭha (sandhi-resolved text, TITUS)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.upanisad.mukhya.mundaka!padapatha.2.2.3) — Sanskrit

## Linked texts (2)

- [Devībhāgavatapurāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.upa.sakta.devibhagavata.7.36.5) — Sanskrit
- [Devīgītā](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.upa.sakta.devibhagavata.devigita.6.5) — Sanskrit

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