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Bhagavad Gita 17.4

Spoken by Krishna (the Blessed Lord)

Sanskrit — recorded

यजन्ते सात्त्विका देवान्यक्षरक्षांसि राजसाः । प्रेतान्भूतगणांश्चान्ये यजन्ते तामसा जनाः

Sanskrit text as printed in The Bhagavad-Gita, 1922

Translation — recorded

Pure men worship the Gods; the passionate the gnomes and giants; the others, the dark folk, worship ghosts and troops of nature-spirits.

Translated by Annie Wood Besant, 1922

Not in this edition

Transliteration
Not provided by the 1922 edition.
Word-by-word meaning
Not provided by the 1922 edition.
Commentary
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Custody of this record

How each part of this record was established. Solid where it is as printed; dashed where it was worked out.

  1. Printed, 1922Known

    Annie Besant, The Bhagavad-Gita, 4th edition, with the text in Devanagari and an English translation.

  2. Transcribed and proofreadKnown

    By volunteers at English Wikisource, from a scan of that edition. View the transcription

  3. Verse number — as printedKnown

    Taken from the number printed beside the verse.

  4. Speaker — carried forwardInferred

    The edition names a speaker only where a speech begins. Krishna (the Blessed Lord) is carried forward from the last speaker line in this chapter of the Sanskrit.

  5. RightsKnown

    PUBLIC DOMAIN · PUBLIC DOMAIN · 1922Public domain in the United States, where it was published before 1931, and in India, where the translator’s death in 1933 put it out of copyright.