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# Muṇḍaka Upaniṣad 3.2.11

Muṇḍakopaniṣad 3.2.11

- **Language:** Sanskrit

### [3.2.11](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.upanisad.mukhya.mundaka.3.2.11)

kriyāvantaḥ śrotriyā brahmaniṣṭhāḥ svayaṃ juhvata ekarṣiṃ śraddhayantaḥ.  
teṣām evaitāṃ brahmavidyāṃ vadeta śirovrataṃ vidhivad yais tu cīrṇam.

> 10. This very \[doctrine\] has been declared in the verse:— They who do the rites, who are learned in the Vedas, who are intent on Brahma, They who, possessing faith (\_śraddhayan\_), make oblation of themselves, even of the one seer— To them indeed one may declare this knowledge of Brahma, When, however, the Muṇḍaka-vow has been performed by them according to rule.’  
> — 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.3.2.p14) — Robert Ernest Hume 1921, English
- [The Upanishads, Part II (SBE 15)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.upanisad.mukhya.mundaka~en-muller.3.2.11) — Friedrich Max Müller 1884, English

## Commentaries (2)

- [Muṇḍakopaniṣadbhāṣya](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.upanisad.mukhya.mundaka!sankara.6.2.9-2.p1) — Śaṅkara, Sanskrit
- [Padapāṭha (sandhi-resolved text, TITUS)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.upanisad.mukhya.mundaka!padapatha.3.2.11) — Sanskrit

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