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Bhagavad Gita 18.29

बुद्धेर्भेदं धृतेश्चैव गुणतस्त्रिविधं श्रृणु।प्रोच्यमानमशेषेण पृथक्त्वेन धनञ्जय॥

buddherbhedaṃ dhṛteścaiva guṇatastrividhaṃ śrṛṇu |procyamānamaśeṣeṇa pṛthaktvena dhanañjaya ||

Hear thou the threefold division of intellect and firmness, according to the Gunas, as I declare them fully and distinctly, O Arjuna.

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

Reason and conviction are threefold, according to the quality that is dominant. I will explain them fully and separately, O Arjuna!

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 18.29 · SatsangVidya