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Bhagavad Gita 7.6

एतद्योनीनि भूतानि सर्वाणीत्युपधारय।अहं कृत्स्नस्य जगतः प्रभवः प्रलयस्तथा॥

etadyonīni bhūtāni sarvāṇītyupadhāraya |ahaṃ kṛtsnasya jagataḥ prabhavaḥ pralayastathā ||

Know that these two are the womb of all beings; thus, I am the source and dissolution of the whole universe.

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

It is the womb of all beings; for I am He by Whom the worlds were created and shall be dissolved.

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 7.6 · SatsangVidya