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# Kaṭha Upaniṣad 3.17

Kaṭhopaniṣad 3.17

- **Language:** Sanskrit

### [3.17](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.upanisad.mukhya.katha.3.17)

ya imaṃ paramaṃ guhyaṃ śrāvayed brahmasaṃsadi /  
prayataḥ śrāddhakāle vā tad ānantyāya kalpate /  
tad ānantyāya kalpata iti //

> 17. If one recites this supreme secret  
> In an assembly of Brahmans,  
> Or at a time of the ceremony for the dead, devoutly—  
> That makes for immortality!  
> —That makes for immortality!  
> — Robert Ernest Hume 1921, The Thirteen Principal Upanishads

### [3.17.p1](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.upanisad.mukhya.katha.3.17.p1)

// iti tṛtīyā vallī //

## Translations (1)

- [The Thirteen Principal Upanishads](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.upanisad.mukhya.katha~en-hume.1.3.p21) — Robert Ernest Hume 1921, English

## Commentaries (7)

- [Kaṭhopaniṣadbhāṣya](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.upanisad.mukhya.katha!sankara.163) — Śaṅkara, Sanskrit
- [Kaṭhaprakāśikā (Raṅgarāmānuja)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.upanisad.mukhya.katha!rangaramanuja.3.16-2.p3) — Raṅgarāmānuja Muni 1500, Sanskrit
- [Maṇiprabhā](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.upanisad.mukhya.katha!amaradasa.3.17) — Amaradāsa, Sanskrit
- [Commentary of Śaṅkarācārya of Śaṅkarācārya](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.upanisad.mukhya.katha!sankaracarya.3.17) — Śaṅkarācārya, Sanskrit
- [Commentary of Upaniṣadbrahmayogin](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.upanisad.mukhya.katha!upanisadbrahmayogin.2.16) — Upaniṣadbrahmayogin 1700, Sanskrit
- [Ṭīkā](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.upanisad.mukhya.katha!tika.2.16) — Sanskrit
- [Padapāṭha (sandhi-resolved text, TITUS)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.upanisad.mukhya.katha!padapatha) — Sanskrit

## Linked texts (13)

- [History of Dharmaśāstra (Ancient and Mediaeval Religious and Civil Law in India)](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.kane-1930.v7.c96.s1.83) — P. V. Kane, English
- [Aṣṭottaraśatopaniṣadaḥ](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.upanisad.samanya.astottarasatopanisadah.10.17) — Sanskrit
- [Ancient Indian Education (Brahmanical and Buddhist)](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.science.mookerji-1947.c11.s4.276) — Radhakumud Mookerji, English
- [Mantrapuṣpa](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.svadhyaya.mantrapuspa.71.17) — Sanskrit
- [The Great Epic of India: Its Character and Origin](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.literature.hopkins-1901.c4.s8.t2.11) — E. W. Hopkins, English
- [The Philosophy of the Upanishads](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.religion.deussen-1906.c5.s3.16) — Paul Deussen & A. S. Geden, English
- [Upaniṣads](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.upanisad.mukhya.upanisads.6.17) — Sanskrit
- [Aṣṭāviṃśatyupaniṣad](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.upanisad.astavimsatyupanisad.13.17) — Sanskrit
- [Īśādyupaniṣadaḥ](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.upanisad.mukhya.isadyupanisadah.8.17) — Sanskrit
- [Īśādidvādaśopaniṣadaḥ](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.upanisad.mukhya.isadidvadasopanisadah.5.17) — Sanskrit
- [Different Upaniṣads](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.upanisad.mukhya.differentupanisads.7.17) — Sanskrit
- [Daśopaniṣad](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.upanisad.mukhya.dasopanisad.7.1) — Sanskrit
- [Pañcopaniṣadaḥ](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.upanisad.pancopanisadah.10.17) — Sanskrit

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