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Brihadaranyaka Upanishad 3.2.11

Bṛhadāraṇyakopaniṣad 3.2.11

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Sanskrit

3.2.11

yājñavalkyeti hovāca yatrāyaṃ puruṣo mriyata udasmātprāṇāḥ krāmantyāho3 neti neti hovāca yajñavalkyo'traiva samavanīyante sa ucchvayatyādhmāyatyādhmāto mṛtaḥ śote

'Yâgñavalkya,' he said, 'when such a person (a sage) dies, do the vital breaths (prânas) move out of him or no?'
'No,' replied Yâgñavalkya; 'they are gathered up in him, he swells, he is inflated, and thus inflated the dead lies at rest.'

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

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