Praśna Upaniṣad ("Six Questions") 4.7
Praśnopaniṣad 4.7
- Language
- Sanskrit
4.7
sa yathā somya vayāṃsi vāsovṛkṣaṃ saṃpratiṣṭhante
evaṃ ha vaitatsarvaṃpara ātmani saṃpratiṣṭhate
7. As birds resort to a tree for a resting-place, even so, O friend, it is to the supreme Soul (Ātman) that everything here resorts :—
4.7.p1
pṛthivī ca pṛthivīmātrā cāpaścāpomātrā ca tejaśca tejomātrā ca vāyuśca
8. Earth and the elements (mātra) of earth, water and the elements of water, heat (tejas) and the elements of heat, wind and the elements of wind, space and the elements of space, sight and what can be seen, hearing and what can be heard, smell and what can be smelled, taste and what can be tasted, the skin and what can be touched, speech and what can be spoken, the hands and what can be taken, the organ of genera-
4.7.p2
vāyumātrā cākāśaścākāśamātrā ca cakṣuśca draṣṭavyaṃ ca śrotraṃ ca śrotavyaṃ ca ghrāṇaṃ
4.7.p3
ca ghrātavyaṃ ca rasaśca rasayitavyaṃ ca tvakcasparśayitavyaṃ ca vākcavaktavyaṃ ca
Translations (2)
- The Thirteen Principal Upanishads — Robert Ernest Hume 1921, English
- The Upanishads, Part II (SBE 15) — Friedrich Max Müller 1884, English
Commentaries (5)
- Praśnopaniṣadbhāṣya — Śaṅkara, Sanskrit
- Praśnaprakāśikā (Raṅgarāmānuja) — Raṅgarāmānuja Muni 1500, Sanskrit
- Commentary of Upaniṣadbrahmayogin — Upaniṣadbrahmayogin 1700, Sanskrit
- Ṭīkā of Jayatīrtha — Jayatīrtha, Sanskrit
- Khaṇḍārtha — Rāghavendra Tīrtha 1615, Sanskrit
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- Different Upaniṣads — Sanskrit
- Daśopaniṣad — Sanskrit
- Indian Philosophy — S. Radhakrishnan, English
- The Religion and Philosophy of the Veda and Upanishads — Arthur Berriedale Keith, English
- Mantrapuṣpa — Sanskrit
- Early Buddhist Theory of Knowledge — K. N. Jayatilleke, English
- The Philosophy of the Upanishads — Paul Deussen & A. S. Geden, English
- Upaniṣads — Sanskrit