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Bhagavad Gita 18.70

अध्येष्यते च य इमं धर्म्यं संवादमावयोः।ज्ञानयज्ञेन तेनाहमिष्टः स्यामिति मे मतिः॥

adhyeṣyate ca ya imaṃ dharmyaṃ saṃvādamāvayoḥ |jñānayajñena tenāhamiṣṭaḥ syāmiti me matiḥ ||

And he who studies this sacred dialogue of ours, by him I shall have been worshipped through the sacrifice of wisdom; such is my conviction.

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

He who will study this spiritual discourse of ours, I assure you, they shall thereby worship Me at the altar of Wisdom.

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 18.70 · SatsangVidya