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Bhagavad Gita 4.1

श्री भगवानुवाच · śrī bhagavānuvāca

इमं विवस्वते योगं प्रोक्तवानहमव्ययम्।विवस्वान् मनवे प्राह मनुरिक्ष्वाकवेऽब्रवीत्॥

imaṃ vivasvate yogaṃ proktavānahamavyayam |vivasvān manave prāha manurikṣvākave'bravīt ||

The Blessed Lord said, "I taught this imperishable Yoga to Vivasvan; he then told it to Manu; Manu proclaimed it to Ikshvaku.

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

Lord Shri Krishna said: I taught this imperishable philosophy to Vivaswān, the founder of the Sun dynasty; Vivaswān gave it to Manu, the lawgiver, and Manu to King Ikshvāku.

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.