Sage · All traditions · Pan-India

Shaunaka Kapeya

A householder of the Chandogya Upanishad who, with Abhipratarin Kakshaseni, at first refuses food to a begging student, then answers the student's riddle about the one god who swallows four and has him fed.

Sources: The Upanishads, tr. F. Max Muller (Sacred Books of the East 1 and 15) · see Shaunaka Kapeya's web

Relations 0

No relations recorded yet.

Stories 1

The breath that never tires and the god that never sets
Legend · as answers the student's riddle (Chandogya 4.3) · 3 tellings

Cited

The Upanishads, tr. F. Max Muller (Sacred Books of the East 1 and 15) § chandogya.4.3 Primary text (translation)