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Bhagavad Gita 16.13

इदमद्य मया लब्धमिमं प्राप्स्ये मनोरथम्।इदमस्तीदमपि मे भविष्यति पुनर्धनम्॥

idamadya mayā labdhamimaṃ prāpsye manoratham |idamastīdamapi me bhaviṣyati punardhanam ||

"I have gained this today; I will fulfill this desire of mine; this is mine, and this wealth will be mine in the future."

Translation by Swami Sivananda · Public domain in India (translator d. 1963)

Today I have gained this; tomorrow I will fulfill another desire; this wealth is mine now, and the rest will soon be mine.

Translation by Shri Purohit Swami · Public domain in India (translator d. 1941)

Our plain-language meaning of this verse is waiting for scholar review.

Edition: Common 700-verse recension. Arjuna's opening question in chapter 13, absent from that recension, is kept as 13.0.

Transliteration in IAST, generated from the Devanagari text.

Source: Sanskrit text via gita/gita (Unlicense), from the Gita Supersite, IIT Kanpur. Sanskrit text public domain.

Bhagavad Gita 16.13 · SatsangVidya