The knowledge above all is a key aspect in the Hindu spiritual tradition. The desire to know more about the depths of life and death cannot be bribed. Death offers Naicketas pleasures, happiness, wealth, many years of life, for him and his family in order to make him take back his question about a man who is considered death, although some other people consider him alive.
“Choose sons and grandsons who’d live a hundred years!/Plenty of livestock and elephants, horses and gold! Choose as your domain a wide expanse of earth” (Olivelle 234) and even offers free desires, at the ...
