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# Kauṣītaki Upaniṣad 3.1.3

Kauṣītakibrāhmaṇopaniṣad 3.1.3

- **Language:** Sanskrit

### [3.1.3](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.upanisad.mukhya.kausitaki.3.1.3)

sa hovāca pratardanas tvam eva me vṛṇīṣva yaṃ tvaṃ manuṣyāya hitatamaṃ manyasa iti /

> Then said Pratardana: ‘Do you yourself choose for me the one which you deem most beneficent to mankind.’  
> — 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.kausitaki~en-hume.3.p5) — Robert Ernest Hume 1921, English
- [The Upanishads, Part I (SBE 1)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.upanisad.mukhya.kausitaki~en-muller.3.1) — Friedrich Max Müller 1879, English

## Commentaries (3)

- [Kauṣītakyupaniṣaddīpikā (Śaṅkarānanda)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.upanisad.mukhya.kausitaki!sankarananda) — Śaṅkarānanda, Sanskrit
- [Commentary of Upaniṣadbrahmayogin](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.upanisad.mukhya.kausitaki!upanisadbrahmayogin) — Upaniṣadbrahmayogin, Sanskrit
- [Kauṣītakyupaniṣadbhāṣya (Raṅgarāmānuja)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.upanisad.mukhya.kausitaki!rangaramanuja) — Raṅgarāmānuja Muni, Sanskrit

## Linked texts (1)

- [A History of Indian Philosophy](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.religion.dasgupta-1922.v4.c38.s2.13) — Surendranath Dasgupta, English

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