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# Prashna Upanishad 6.8

Praśnopaniṣad 6.8

- **Language:** Sanskrit

### [6.8](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.upanisad.mukhya.prasna.6.8)

te tamarcayantastvaṃ hi naḥ pitā yo'smākamavidyāyāḥ paraṃ pāraṃ tārayasīti  
namaḥ paramaṛṣibhyo namaḥ paramaṛṣibhyaḥ

> While worshipping him they said, "You indeed are our father who have ferried us across nescience to the other shore. Salutation to the great seers. Salutation to the great seers."  
> — Swami Gambhirananda 1957, Eight Upaniṣads, with the Commentary of Śaṅkarācārya

### [6.8.p1](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.upanisad.mukhya.prasna.6.8.p1)

iti ṣaṣṭhaḥ praśnaḥ

### [6.8.p2](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.upanisad.mukhya.prasna.6.8.p2)

bhadraṃ karṇebhiḥ śṛṇuyāma devā bhadraṃ paśyemākṣabhiryajatrāḥ  
sthirairaṅgaistuṣṭuvām̐sastanūbhirvyaśema devahitaṃ yadāyuḥ  
svasti na indro vṛddhaśravāḥ svasti naḥ pūṣā viśvavedāḥ  
svasti nastārkṣyo ariṣṭanemiḥ svasti no bṛhaspatirdadhātu  
— śāntiḥ śāntiḥ śāntiḥ  
ityatharvavedīyā praśnopaniṣatsamaptā

## Translations (4)

- [Eight Upaniṣads, with the Commentary of Śaṅkarācārya](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.upanisad.mukhya.prasna~en-gambhirananda.6.8) — Swami Gambhirananda 1957, English
- [The Upanishads, Part II (SBE 15)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.upanisad.mukhya.prasna~en-muller.6.8) — Friedrich Max Müller 1884, English
- [The Upanishads](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.upanisad.mukhya.prasna~en-nikhilananda.6.8) — Swami Nikhilananda 1949, English
- [The Thirteen Principal Upanishads](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.upanisad.mukhya.prasna~en-hume.6.p12) — Robert Ernest Hume 1921, English

## Commentaries (4)

- [Praśnopaniṣadbhāṣya](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.upanisad.mukhya.prasna!sankara.134.1) — Śaṅkara, Sanskrit
- [Praśnaprakāśikā (Raṅgarāmānuja)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.upanisad.mukhya.prasna!rangaramanuja.6.32) — Raṅgarāmānuja Muni 1500, Sanskrit
- [Commentary of Upaniṣadbrahmayogin](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.upanisad.mukhya.prasna!upanisadbrahmayogin.6.8) — Upaniṣadbrahmayogin 1700, Sanskrit
- [Khaṇḍārtha](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.upanisad.mukhya.prasna!raghavendra-tirtha) — Rāghavendra Tīrtha, Sanskrit

## Discussed in (2)

- [Studies in the Origins of Buddhism](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.religion.pande-1957.c18.258) — Pande 1957, English
- [Ancient Indian Education (Brahmanical and Buddhist)](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.science.mookerji-1947.c11.s4.85) — Mookerji 1947, English

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