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# Praśna Upaniṣad ("Six Questions") 4.3

Praśnopaniṣad 4.3

- **Language:** Sanskrit

### [4.3](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.upanisad.mukhya.prasna.4.3)

prāṇāgnaya evaitasminpurejāgrati  
gārhapatyo ha vā eṣo'pāno vyāno'nvāhāryapacano yadgārhapatyātpraṇīyate praṇayanādāhavanīyaḥ prāṇaḥ

> 3. Life’s fires, in truth, remain awake in this city.  
> — Robert Ernest Hume 1921, The Thirteen Principal Upanishads

> The out-breath (\*apāna\*) is the Gārhapatya (Householder’s) fire. The diffused breath (\*vyāna\*) is the Anvāhāryapacana (Southern Sacrificial) fire. The in-breath (\*prāṇa\*) is the Āhavanīya (Oblation) fire, from “being taken” (\*praṇayana\*), since it is taken (\*praṇīyate\*) from the Gārhapatya fire.  
> — 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.prasna~en-hume.4.p7) — Robert Ernest Hume 1921, English
- [The Upanishads, Part II (SBE 15)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.upanisad.mukhya.prasna~en-muller.4.3) — Friedrich Max Müller 1884, English

## Commentaries (5)

- [Praśnopaniṣadbhāṣya](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.upanisad.mukhya.prasna!sankara.88.1) — Śaṅkara, Sanskrit
- [Praśnaprakāśikā (Raṅgarāmānuja)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.upanisad.mukhya.prasna!rangaramanuja.4.3) — Raṅgarāmānuja Muni 1500, Sanskrit
- [Commentary of Upaniṣadbrahmayogin](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.upanisad.mukhya.prasna!upanisadbrahmayogin.4.3) — Upaniṣadbrahmayogin 1700, Sanskrit
- [Ṭīkā of Jayatīrtha](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.upanisad.mukhya.prasna!madhva!jayatirtha.4.3) — Jayatīrtha, Sanskrit
- [Khaṇḍārtha](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.upanisad.mukhya.prasna!raghavendra-tirtha) — Rāghavendra Tīrtha, Sanskrit

## Linked texts (14)

- [Īśādiviṃśottaraśatopaniṣadaḥ](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.upanisad.isadivimsottarasatopanisadah.1.34_228) — Sanskrit
- [Aṣṭottaraśatopaniṣadaḥ](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.upanisad.samanya.astottarasatopanisadah.16.3) — Sanskrit
- [Indian Philosophy](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.religion.radhakrishnan-1923.v1.c9.s2.66) — S. Radhakrishnan, English
- [Mantrapuṣpa](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.svadhyaya.mantrapuspa.78.3) — Sanskrit
- [The Philosophy of the Upanishads](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.religion.deussen-1906.c11.s2.t4.14) — Paul Deussen & A. S. Geden, English
- [Upaniṣads](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.upanisad.mukhya.upanisads.12.3) — Sanskrit
- [Aṣṭāviṃśatyupaniṣad](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.upanisad.astavimsatyupanisad.20.3) — Sanskrit
- [Saṃnyāsa Upaniṣads: Hindu Scriptures on Asceticism and Renunciation](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.religion.olivelle-1992.c6.s6.21) — Patrick Olivelle, English
- [Īśādyupaniṣadaḥ](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.upanisad.mukhya.isadyupanisadah.15.3) — Sanskrit
- [Īśādidvādaśopaniṣadaḥ](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.upanisad.mukhya.isadidvadasopanisadah.14.3) — Sanskrit
- [Different Upaniṣads](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.upanisad.mukhya.differentupanisads.14.3) — Sanskrit
- [Daśopaniṣad](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.upanisad.mukhya.dasopanisad.13.3) — Sanskrit
- [Upaniṣads Īśa to Aitareya](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.upanisad.mukhya.upanisadsisatoaitareya.12.3) — Sanskrit
- [Spiritual Authority and Temporal Power in the Indian Theory of Government](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.coomaraswamy-1942.c2.s1.32) — Ananda K. Coomaraswamy, English

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