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Praśna Upaniṣad ("Six Questions") 3.6

Praśnopaniṣad 3.6

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Sanskrit

3.6

hṛdi hyeṣa ātmā
atraitadekaśataṃ nāḍīnāṃ tāsāṃ śataṃ śatamekaikasyāṃ dvāsaptatirdvāsaptatiḥ pratiśākhānāḍīsahasrāṇi bhavantyāsuvyānaścarati

6. In the heart, truly, is the self (_ātman_). Here there are those hundred and one arteries. To each one of these belong a hundred smaller arteries. To each of these belong seventy-two thousand branching arteries (_hitā_). Within them moves the diffused breath (_vyāna_).

Robert Ernest Hume 1921, The Thirteen Principal Upanishads

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