Chapter 4 · Knowledge and Renunciation of Action

    Verse 8

    Sanskrit Text — Chapter 4, Verse 8

    परित्राणाय साधूनां विनाशाय च दुष्कृताम्। धर्मसंस्थापनार्थाय संभवामि युगे युगे।।4.8।।

    Transliteration (IAST)

    paritrāṇāya sādhūnāṁ vināśhāya cha duṣhkṛitām dharma-sansthāpanārthāya sambhavāmi yuge yuge

    Translation

    For the protection of the good and the destruction of the wicked, for the establishment of Dharma, I am born from age to age.
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