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# Kaṭha Upaniṣad 69

Kaṭhopaniṣadbhāṣya 69

- **Language:** Sanskrit

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yasminn idaṃ vicikitsanti mṛtyo yat sāmparāye mahati brūhi nas tat /  
yo 'yaṃ varo gūḍham anupraviṣṭo nānyaṃ tasmān naciketā vṛṇīte ///1,1.29 //

> 29. Oh Death, tell us that in which men have this doubt, and which is about the great hereafter; no other boon doth Nachiketas crave, than this which entered into the secret.  
> — S. Sitarama Sastri 1898, The Kaṭha Upaniṣad and Śrī Śaṅkara's Commentary

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## Translations (2)

- [The Kaṭha Upaniṣad and Śrī Śaṅkara's Commentary](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.upanisad.mukhya.katha!sankara~en-sitaramasastri.1.1.29.p1) — S. Sitarama Sastri 1898, English
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