Apte Dictionary

V. S. Apte, The Practical Sanskrit–English Dictionary. Look up any word of the Gita in Devanagari, IAST or Harvard-Kyoto, or browse the headwords letter by letter.

Entry केन

केनkenaind.By what ? whence, how, why; वत्सोपमन्यो केन वृत्तिं कल्पयसि Mb.1.3.36. केनेशितोपनिषद्, केनोपनिषद् N. of one of…
By what ? whence, how, why; वत्सोपमन्यो केन वृत्तिं कल्पयसि Mb.1.3.36. केनेशितोपनिषद्, केनोपनिषद् Name of one of the old principal Upaniṣads.
In the Gita3·36

अथ केन प्रयुक्तोऽयं पापं चरति पूरुषः ।

atha kena prayukto'yaṁ pāpaṁ carati pūruṣaḥ, — Arjuna said:- But (if there is no fault in following our Nature) what is this in us that drives a man to sin, as if by force, even against his own… 3·36
- केनkenainstrumental singular of the masculine form of the pronoun kim (what, which, who).
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