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Kaṭha Upaniṣad 1.2.17

KaU 1.2.17

एतदालम्बनँ श्रेष्ठमेतदालम्बनं परम् । एतदालम्बनं ज्ञात्वा ब्रह्मलोके महीयते

etad ālambanaṃ śreṣṭham etad ālambanaṃ param / etad ālambanaṃ jñātvā brahmaloke mahīyate

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

This is the best Support, This is the highest Support; he who knows this Support is glorified in the world of Brahman.

Translated by Swami Paramananda

This is the best support, this is the highest support; he who knows that support is magnified in the world of Brahmâ.

Translated by F. Max Müller

← KaU 1.2.16Ask about this verse KaU 1.2.18 →

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Cite as: Kaṭha Upaniṣad 1.2.17, in HREEM (hreem.cc/library/KaU/1.2.17), after Project Gutenberg #3283, Swami Paramananda, The Upanishads (1919).

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Project Gutenberg #3283 — Swami Paramananda, The Upanishads (1919) | IAST: GRETIL 1_veda/4_upa/kathop_u.htm — Katha-Upanisad Based on Olivelle, Patrick: The Early Upaniṣads. Annotated Text and Translation. New York : 1998, pp. 374-402. Input and proofreading by the Vienna University Student Team (SoSe 2016) [GRETIL-Version vom 09.11.2016] STRUCTURE OF REFERENCES: KaU_ | IAST: GRETIL 1_veda/4_upa/kathop_u.htm — Katha-Upanisad Based on Olivelle, Patrick: The Early Upaniṣads. Annotated Text and Translation. New York : 1998, pp. 374-402. Input and proofreading by the Vienna University Student Team (SoSe 2016) [GRETIL-Version vom 09.11.2016] STRUCTURE OF REFERENCES: KaU_ | IAST: GRETIL 1_veda/4_upa/kathop_u.htm — Katha-Upanisad Based on Olivelle, Patrick: The Early Upaniṣads. Annotated Text and Translation. New York : 1998, pp. 374-402. Input and proofreading by the Vienna University Student Team (SoSe 2016) [GRETIL-Version vom 09.11.2016] STRUCTURE OF REFERENCES: KaU_ | IAST: GRETIL 1_veda/4_upa/kathop_u.htm — Katha-Upanisad Based on Olivelle, Patrick: The Early Upaniṣads. Annotated Text and Translation. New York : 1998, pp. 374-402. Input and proofreading by the Vienna University Student Team (SoSe 2016) [GRETIL-Version vom 09.11.2016] STRUCTURE OF REFERENCES: KaU_ | IAST: GRETIL 1_veda/4_upa/kathop_u.htm — Katha-Upanisad Based on Olivelle, Patrick: The Early Upaniṣads. Annotated Text and Translation. New York : 1998, pp. 374-402. Input and proofreading by the Vienna University Student Team (SoSe 2016) [GRETIL-Version vom 09.11.2016] STRUCTURE OF REFERENCES: KaU_ | IAST: GRETIL 1_veda/4_upa/kathop_u.htm — Katha-Upanisad Based on Olivelle, Patrick: The Early Upaniṣads. Annotated Text and Translation. New York : 1998, pp. 374-402. Input and proofreading by the Vienna University Student Team (SoSe 2016) [GRETIL-Version vom 09.11.2016] STRUCTURE OF REFERENCES: KaU_ | IAST: GRETIL 1_veda/4_upa/kathop_u.htm — Katha-Upanisad Based on Olivelle, Patrick: The Early Upaniṣads. Annotated Text and Translation. New York : 1998, pp. 374-402. Input and proofreading by the Vienna University Student Team (SoSe 2016) [GRETIL-Version vom 09.11.2016] STRUCTURE OF REFERENCES: KaU_ | IAST: GRETIL 1_veda/4_upa/kathop_u.htm — Katha-Upanisad Based on Olivelle, Patrick: The Early Upaniṣads. Annotated Text and Translation. New York : 1998, pp. 374-402. Input and proofreading by the Vienna University Student Team (SoSe 2016) [GRETIL-Version vom 09.11.2016] STRUCTURE OF REFERENCES: KaU_ | IAST: GRETIL 1_veda/4_upa/kathop_u.htm — Katha-Upanisad Based on Olivelle, Patrick: The Early Upaniṣads. Annotated Text and Translation. New York : 1998, pp. 374-402. Input and proofreading by the Vienna University Student Team (SoSe 2016) [GRETIL-Version vom 09.11.2016] STRUCTURE OF REFERENCES: KaU_

Public domain (Paramananda d. 1940; Project Gutenberg). Devanagari: Sanskrit Wikisource (public-domain text). | Sanskrit (IAST) from 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. | Sanskrit (IAST) from 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. | Sanskrit (IAST) from 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. | Sanskrit (IAST) from 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. | Sanskrit (IAST) from 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. | Sanskrit (IAST) from 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. | Sanskrit (IAST) from 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). | Sanskrit (IAST) from 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. | Sanskrit (IAST) from 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.

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