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# Kaṭha Upaniṣad 1.3

Kaṭhopaniṣad 1.3

- **Language:** Sanskrit

### [1.3](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.upanisad.mukhya.katha.1.3)

pītodakā jagdhatṛṇā dugdhadohā nirindriyāḥ /  
anandā nāma te lokās tān sa gacchati tā dadat //

> 3. ‘Their water drunk, their grass eaten, Their milk milked, barren!— Joyless (a-nanda) certainly are those worlds He goes to, who gives such \[cows\]!’  
> — Robert Ernest Hume 1921, The Thirteen Principal Upanishads

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## Translations (2)

- [The Thirteen Principal Upanishads](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.upanisad.mukhya.katha~en-hume.1.p4) — Robert Ernest Hume 1921, English
- [The Upanishads, Part II (SBE 15)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.upanisad.mukhya.katha~en-muller.1.1.3) — Friedrich Max Müller 1884, English

## Commentaries (3)

- [Kaṭhopaniṣadbhāṣya](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.upanisad.mukhya.katha!sankara.10) — Śaṅkara, Sanskrit
- [Kaṭhaprakāśikā (Raṅgarāmānuja)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.upanisad.mukhya.katha!rangaramanuja.1.2.3) — Raṅgarāmānuja Muni 1500, Sanskrit
- [Padapāṭha (sandhi-resolved text, TITUS)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.upanisad.mukhya.katha!padapatha.1.3) — Sanskrit

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