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# Praśna Upaniṣad ("Six Questions") 3.7

Praśnopaniṣad 3.7

- **Language:** Sanskrit

### [3.7](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.upanisad.mukhya.prasna.3.7)

athaikayordhvaudānaḥ puṇyena puṇyaṃ lokaṃ nayati pāpena pāpamubhābhyāmeva manuṣyalokam

> 7. Now, rising upward through one of these \[arteries\], the up-breath (\_udāna\_) leads in consequence of good \[work\] (\_puṇya\_) to the good world; in consequence of evil (\_pāpa\_), to the evil world; in consequence of both, to the world of men.  
> — 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.prasna~en-hume.3.p14) — Robert Ernest Hume 1921, English
- [The Upanishads, Part II (SBE 15)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.upanisad.mukhya.prasna~en-muller.3.7) — Friedrich Max Müller 1884, English

## Commentaries (5)

- [Praśnopaniṣadbhāṣya](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.upanisad.mukhya.prasna!sankara.72.1) — Śaṅkara, Sanskrit
- [Praśnaprakāśikā (Raṅgarāmānuja)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.upanisad.mukhya.prasna!rangaramanuja.3.p49) — Raṅgarāmānuja Muni 1500, Sanskrit
- [Commentary of Upaniṣadbrahmayogin](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.upanisad.mukhya.prasna!upanisadbrahmayogin.3.7) — Upaniṣadbrahmayogin 1700, Sanskrit
- [Ṭīkā of Jayatīrtha](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.upanisad.mukhya.prasna!madhva!jayatirtha.3.5) — Jayatīrtha, Sanskrit
- [Khaṇḍārtha](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.upanisad.mukhya.prasna!raghavendra-tirtha.3.5) — Rāghavendra Tīrtha 1615, Sanskrit

## Linked texts (6)

- [History of Dharmaśāstra (Ancient and Mediaeval Religious and Civil Law in India)](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.kane-1930.v7.c95.223) — P. V. Kane, English
- [Vedic Index of Names and Subjects](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.macdonell-keith-1912.v1.c3.s4.65) — Arthur A. Macdonell & A. Berriedale Keith, English
- [A History of Indian Philosophy](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.religion.dasgupta-1922.v2.c20.s9.19) — Surendranath Dasgupta, English
- [The Religion and Philosophy of the Veda and Upanishads](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.religion.keith-1925.v2.c40.s11.31) — Arthur Berriedale Keith, English
- [Studies in the Origins of Buddhism](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.religion.pande-1957.c13.284) — Govind Chandra Pande, English
- [The Philosophy of the Upanishads](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.religion.deussen-1906.c11.s2.t4.26) — Paul Deussen & A. S. Geden, English

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