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Bṛhadāraṇyaka Upaniṣad ("Great Forest Teaching") 3.2.10

Bṛhadāraṇyakopaniṣad 3.2.10

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Sanskrit

3.2.10

yājñavalkyeti hovāca yadidam̐ sarvaṃ mṛtyorannaṃ kā svitsā devatā yasyā mṛtyurannamityagnivaiṃ mṛtyuḥ so'pāmannamapa punarmṛtyuṃ jayati

'Yâgñavalkya,' he said, 'everything is the food of death. What then is the deity to whom death is food?'
'Fire (agni) is death, and that is the food of water. Death is conquered again.'

Friedrich Max Müller 1884, The Upanishads, Part II (SBE 15)

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