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Bhagavad Gita 9.7

सर्वभूतानि कौन्तेय प्रकृतिं यान्ति मामिकाम्।कल्पक्षये पुनस्तानि कल्पादौ विसृजाम्यहम्॥

sarvabhūtāni kaunteya prakṛtiṃ yānti māmikām |kalpakṣaye punastāni kalpādau visṛjāmyaham ||

All beings, O Arjuna, go into My Nature at the end of a Kalpa; I send them forth again at the beginning of the next Kalpa.

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

All beings, O Arjuna, return at the end of every cosmic cycle into the realm of Nature, which is a part of Me, and at the start of the next I send them forth again.

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.