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Chāndogya Upaniṣad 5.9.2

ChU 5.9.2

स जातो यावदायुषं जीवति । तं प्रेतं दिष्टम् इतो ऽग्नय एव हरन्ति यत एवेतो यतः संभूतो भवति

sa jāto yāvadāyuṣaṃ jīvati | taṃ pretaṃ diṣṭam ito 'gnaya eva haranti yata eveto yataḥ saṃbhūto bhavati

Devanagari rendered by HREEM from the edition's roman (IAST) text; the IAST is the edition's own.

'When born, he lives whatever the length of his life may be. When he has departed, his friends carry him, as appointed, to the fire (of the funeral pile) from whence he came, from whence he sprang.

Translated by F. Max Müller

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Cite as: Chāndogya Upaniṣad 5.9.2, in HREEM (hreem.cc/library/ChU/5.9.2), after GRETIL, Chandogya-Upanisad (Chandogyopanisad) Mula text extracted from the commented version.

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GRETIL 1_veda/4_upa/chup___u.htm — Chandogya-Upanisad (Chandogyopanisad) Mula text extracted from the commented version. Input by members of the Sansknet project (formerly: www.sansknet.org) [GRETIL-Version vom 17.03.2017] Revisions: 2017-03-17: 7,16.1 added by James Fitzgerald This GRETIL vers

GRETIL (SUB Göttingen), CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 — non-commercial use with attribution; the Companion is kept free while this corpus is held. Devanagari generated mechanically from GRETIL's IAST. English: F. Max Müller (SBE, public domain).

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