Hindu religious traditions
Kena Upanishadकेन उपनिषद्
Upanishad
An inquiry into what impels mind, speech and the senses, followed by a teaching involving a mysterious yaksha.
STORY & TRADITION
The world of Kena Upanishad.
An inquiry into what impels mind, speech and the senses, followed by a teaching involving a mysterious yaksha.
The Sacred Library
Details & context.
- Tradition dependence
- High — compare the identified textual or regional account.
- Library category
- Shruti
- Form / textual family
- Upanishad
- Traditional attribution
- An inherited textual tradition; no single historical author is established here.
- Subject & teachings
- An inquiry into what impels mind, speech and the senses, followed by a teaching involving a mysterious yaksha.
- Structure
- Consult the identified edition for chapters, recension and numbering.
- Textual relationships
- Shruti
- Historical context
- Composition, transmission and redaction must be distinguished; no unsupported exact date is assigned.
- Reading notes
- Read the Sanskrit with an identified translation. Commentary is presented by its own school, not as the only interpretation.
- Tradition notes
- Names and accounts can vary by recension, region and commentary. This entry distinguishes attested details from identifications still requiring a passage-level source.
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Connected worlds.
6 connected profiles. Every path leads to an original record.
Image credit.
Bhagavata Purana manuscript, West Bengal, 16th century (?), LACMA M.88.134.4. Gift of Mr. and Mrs. H. Robert Slusser. Image courtesy LACMA, public domain.
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READ THE SOURCES
Texts & references.
01
Upanishads — Sacred Books of the East I
Chandogya, Kena, Aitareya, Kaushitaki and Isha; Max Müller translation.
Shruti · Translations and numbering vary by edition. Separate the primary text from its commentary.Reference overview. Consult the identified text and passage; unestablished fields are explicitly marked.