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# Kaṭha Upaniṣad 3.14

Kaṭhopaniṣad 3.14

- **Language:** Sanskrit

### [3.14](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.upanisad.mukhya.katha.3.14)

uttiṣṭhata jāgrata prāpya varān nibodhata /  
kṣurasya dhārā niśitā duratyayā durgaṃ pathas tat kavayo vadanti //

> 14. Arise ye! Awake ye!  
> Obtain your boons and understand them!  
> A sharpened edge of a razor, hard to traverse,  
> A difficult path is this—poets (\_kavi\_) declare!  
> — 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.p17) — Robert Ernest Hume 1921, English

## Commentaries (7)

- [Kaṭhopaniṣadbhāṣya](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.upanisad.mukhya.katha!sankara.156) — Śaṅkara, Sanskrit
- [Kaṭhaprakāśikā (Raṅgarāmānuja)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.upanisad.mukhya.katha!rangaramanuja.3.13.p5) — Raṅgarāmānuja Muni 1500, Sanskrit
- [Maṇiprabhā](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.upanisad.mukhya.katha!amaradasa.3.14) — Amaradāsa, Sanskrit
- [Commentary of Śaṅkarācārya of Śaṅkarācārya](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.upanisad.mukhya.katha!sankaracarya.3.14) — Śaṅkarācārya, Sanskrit
- [Commentary of Upaniṣadbrahmayogin](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.upanisad.mukhya.katha!upanisadbrahmayogin) — Upaniṣadbrahmayogin, Sanskrit
- [Ṭīkā](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.upanisad.mukhya.katha!tika) — Sanskrit
- [Padapāṭha (sandhi-resolved text, TITUS)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.upanisad.mukhya.katha!padapatha) — Sanskrit

## Linked texts (4)

- [History of Dharmaśāstra (Ancient and Mediaeval Religious and Civil Law in India)](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.kane-1930.v7.c96.s1.44) — P. V. Kane, English
- [Studies in the Origins of Buddhism](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.religion.pande-1957.c19.61) — Govind Chandra Pande, English
- [The Great Epic of India: Its Character and Origin](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.literature.hopkins-1901.c4.s8.t1.2) — E. W. Hopkins, English
- [The Philosophy of the Upanishads](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.religion.deussen-1906.c12.s3.t1.7) — Paul Deussen & A. S. Geden, English

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