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# Kaṭha Upaniṣad 3.13

Kaṭhopaniṣad 3.13

- **Language:** Sanskrit

### [3.13](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.upanisad.mukhya.katha.3.13)

yacched vāṅmanasī prājñas tad yacchej jñāna ātmani /  
jñānam ātmani mahati niyacchet tad yacchec chānta ātmani //

> 13. An intelligent man should suppress his speech and his mind.  
> The latter he should suppress in the Understanding-Self  
> (jñāna ātman).  
> — Robert Ernest Hume 1921, The Thirteen Principal Upanishads

> The understanding he should suppress in the Great Self \[= \_buddhi\_, intellect\]. That he should suppress in the Tranquil Self (\_śānta ātman\_).  
> — Robert Ernest Hume 1921, The Thirteen Principal Upanishads

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## Translations (1)

- [The Thirteen Principal Upanishads](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.upanisad.mukhya.katha~en-hume.1.3.p14) — Robert Ernest Hume 1921, English

## Commentaries (7)

- [Kaṭhopaniṣadbhāṣya](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.upanisad.mukhya.katha!sankara.154) — Śaṅkara, Sanskrit
- [Kaṭhaprakāśikā (Raṅgarāmānuja)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.upanisad.mukhya.katha!rangaramanuja.3.10.11.p13) — Raṅgarāmānuja Muni 1500, Sanskrit
- [Maṇiprabhā](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.upanisad.mukhya.katha!amaradasa.3.13) — Amaradāsa, Sanskrit
- [Commentary of Śaṅkarācārya of Śaṅkarācārya](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.upanisad.mukhya.katha!sankaracarya.3.13) — Śaṅkarācārya, Sanskrit
- [Commentary of Upaniṣadbrahmayogin](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.upanisad.mukhya.katha!upanisadbrahmayogin.2.13) — Upaniṣadbrahmayogin 1700, Sanskrit
- [Ṭīkā](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.upanisad.mukhya.katha!tika.2.13) — Sanskrit
- [Padapāṭha (sandhi-resolved text, TITUS)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.upanisad.mukhya.katha!padapatha) — Sanskrit

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