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Bhagavad Gita 4.8

परित्राणाय साधूनां विनाशाय च दुष्कृताम्।धर्मसंस्थापनार्थाय संभवामि युगे युगे॥

paritrāṇāya sādhūnāṃ vināśāya ca duṣkṛtām |dharmasaṃsthāpanārthāya saṃbhavāmi yuge yuge ||

For the protection of the good, for the destruction of the wicked, and for the establishment of righteousness, I am born in every age.

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

To protect the righteous, to destroy the wicked, and to establish the kingdom of God, I am reborn from age to age.

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.