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# Bhagavadgita 2.21

Bhagavadgītā 2.21

- **Language:** Sanskrit

### [2.21](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darsana.all.gita.2.21)

vedāvināśinaṃ nityaṃ ya enam ajam avyayam  
kathaṃ sa puruṣaḥ pārtha kaṃ ghātayati hanti kam

> He that knows This to be indestructible, changeless, without birth, and immutable, how is he, O son of Prithâ, to slay or cause another to slay?  
> — Swami Swarupananda 1909, Srimad-Bhagavad-Gita

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## Translations (3)

- [Srimad-Bhagavad-Gita](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darsana.all.gita~en-swarupananda.2.21) — Swami Swarupananda 1909, English
- [The Bhagavadgîtâ (Sacred Books of the East, vol. 8)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darsana.all.gita~en-telang.2.p5.2) — Kashinath Trimbak Telang 1882, English
- [The Song Celestial](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darsana.all.gita~en-arnold.2.p3) — Edwin Arnold 1885, English

## Commentaries (14)

- [Bhagavadgītābhāṣya (Śāṅkarabhāṣya)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darsana.all.gita!sankara.2.74) — Śaṅkara, Sanskrit
- [Jñāneśvarī](https://indike.org/pramana/in.vernacular.marathi.jnanesvara.jnanesvari.2.143) — Jñāneśvara, Marathi
- [Subodhinī](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darsana.all.gita!sridhara.53.1) — Śrīdhara Svāmin, Sanskrit
- [Bhagavadgītāvīraśaivabhāṣya](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darsana.all.gita!bhagavadgitavirasaivabhasya.2.303) — Sanskrit
- [Bhagavadgītāvivaraṇa (Sarvatobhadra)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darsana.all.gita!bhagavadgitavivarana-sarvatobhadra.1.241) — Sanskrit
- [Bhagavadāśayānusaraṇabhāṣya](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darsana.all.gita!bhaskara.106.4) — Bhāskara (Vedāntin), Sanskrit
- [Gītārthasaṅgraha (of Abhinavagupta)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darsana.all.gita!abhinavagupta.1.134) — Abhinavagupta, Sanskrit
- [Gītābhāṣya (of Rāmānuja)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darsana.all.gita!ramanuja.2.21) — Rāmānuja, Sanskrit
- [Gūḍhārthadīpikā](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darsana.all.gita!madhusudana.2.21) — Madhusūdana Sarasvatī 1570, Sanskrit
- [Tātparyabodhinī](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darsana.all.gita!samkarananda.4.21) — Śaṅkarānanda, Sanskrit
- [Tattvaprakāśikā](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darsana.all.gita!kesava-kasmiri.3.21) — Keśava Kāśmīrī, Sanskrit
- [Sārārthavarṣiṇī](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darsana.all.gita!visvanatha.2.21) — Viśvanātha Cakravartin 1680, Sanskrit
- [Bālabodhinī](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darsana.all.gita!g-s-pathak.2.20) — G.S. Pathak 1825, Sanskrit
- [Arthaprakāśikā](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darsana.all.gita!upanisadbrahmayogin.3.21) — Upaniṣadbrahmayogin 1715, Sanskrit

## Other recensions (1)

- [Vulgate (700 verses)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darsana.all.gita*vulgate.2.21) — Sanskrit

## Linked texts (2)

- [Mahābhārata](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.mahabharata.vyasa.6.24.21) — Vyāsa, Sanskrit
- [Vulgate (Nīlakaṇṭha's text)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.mahabharata.vyasa*vulgate.6.26.21) — Sanskrit

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