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Bhagavad Gita 18.1

अर्जुन उवाच · arjuna uvāca

संन्यासस्य महाबाहो तत्त्वमिच्छामि वेदितुम्।त्यागस्य च हृषीकेश पृथक्केशिनिषूदन॥

saṃnyāsasya mahābāho tattvamicchāmi veditum |tyāgasya ca hṛṣīkeśa pṛthakkeśiniṣūdana ||

Arjuna said, "O mighty-armed Hrishikesa, I desire to know the essence or truth of renunciation and abandonment severally, O slayer of Kesi."

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

Arjuna asked, "O Mighty One! I desire to know how relinquishment is distinguished from renunciation.

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 18.1 · SatsangVidya