Library·Kena Upaniṣad·4·4.3
तस्माद्वा इन्द्रोऽतितरामिवान्यान्देवान् सह्येनन्नेदिष्ठं पस्पर्श स ह्येनत्प्रथमो विदाञ्चकार ब्रह्मेति
Therefore Indra excels all other Devas, because he came nearest to Brahman, and because he first (before all others) knew this spirit as Brahman.
Translated by Swami Paramananda
And therefore Indra is, as it were, above the other gods, for he touched it nearest, he first knew it.
Translated by F. Max Müller
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Cite as: Kena Upaniṣad 4.3, in HREEM (hreem.cc/library/KeU/4.3), after Project Gutenberg #3283, Swami Paramananda, The Upanishads (1919).
Project Gutenberg #3283 — Swami Paramananda, The Upanishads (1919)
Public domain (Paramananda d. 1940; Project Gutenberg). Devanagari: Sanskrit Wikisource (public-domain text). English: F. Max Müller (SBE, public domain).