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# Kaṭha Upaniṣad 1.8

Kaṭhopaniṣad 1.8

- **Language:** Sanskrit

### [1.8](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.upanisad.mukhya.katha.1.8)

āśāpratīkṣe saṃgataṃ sūnṛtāṃ ca iṣṭāpūrte putrapaśūṃś ca sarvān /  
etad vṛṅkte puruṣasyālpamedhaso yasyānaśnan vasati brāhmaṇo gṛhe //

> 8. Hope and expectation, intercourse and pleasantness,  
> Sacrifices and meritorious deeds, sons and cattle, all—  
> This he snatches away from the man of little understanding  
> In whose home a Brahman remains without eating.  
> — 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.p13) — Robert Ernest Hume 1921, English
- [The Upanishads, Part II (SBE 15)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.upanisad.mukhya.katha~en-muller.1.1.8) — Friedrich Max Müller 1884, English

## Commentaries (3)

- [Kaṭhopaniṣadbhāṣya](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.upanisad.mukhya.katha!sankara.21) — Śaṅkara, Sanskrit
- [Kaṭhaprakāśikā (Raṅgarāmānuja)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.upanisad.mukhya.katha!rangaramanuja.1.2.8) — Raṅgarāmānuja Muni 1500, Sanskrit
- [Commentary of Upaniṣadbrahmayogin](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.upanisad.mukhya.katha!upanisadbrahmayogin.1.7) — Upaniṣadbrahmayogin 1700, Sanskrit

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