[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Indian literature](https://indike.org/pramana/in) › [Philosophy](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darsana) › [General works and doxographies](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darsana.all) › [Bhagavadgita](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darsana.all.gita) › 2.42 # Bhagavadgita 2.42 Bhagavadgītā 2.42 - **Language:** Sanskrit ### [2.42](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darsana.all.gita.2.42) yām imāṃ puṣpitāṃ vācaṃ pravadanty avipaścitaḥ vedavādaratāḥ pārtha nānyad astīti vādinaḥ > O Pârtha, no set determination is formed in the minds of those that are deeply attached to pleasure and power, and whose discrimination is stolen away by the flowery words of the unwise, who are full of desires and look upon heaven as their highest goal and who, taking pleasure in the panegyric words of the Vedas, declare that there is nothing else. Their (flowery) words are exuberant with various specific, rites as the means to pleasure and power and are the causes of (new) births as the result of their works (performed with desire). > — Swami Swarupananda 1909, Srimad-Bhagavad-Gita - [Previous: 2.41](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darsana.all.gita.2.41) - [Next: 2.43](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darsana.all.gita.2.43) - [Up: 2](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darsana.all.gita.2) ## Translations (3) - [Srimad-Bhagavad-Gita](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darsana.all.gita~en-swarupananda.2.42) — Swami Swarupananda 1909, English - [The Bhagavadgîtâ (Sacred Books of the East, vol. 8)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darsana.all.gita~en-telang.2.p5.4) — Kashinath Trimbak Telang 1882, English - [The Song Celestial](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darsana.all.gita~en-arnold.2.p7.p2) — Edwin Arnold 1885, English ## Commentaries (9) - [Bhagavadgītābhāṣya (Śāṅkarabhāṣya)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darsana.all.gita!sankara.2.165) — Śaṅkara, Sanskrit - [Jñāneśvarī](https://indike.org/pramana/in.vernacular.marathi.jnanesvara.jnanesvari.2.245) — Jñāneśvara, Marathi - [Subodhinī](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darsana.all.gita!sridhara.73.1) — Śrīdhara Svāmin, Sanskrit - [Bhagavadgītāvivaraṇa (Sarvatobhadra)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darsana.all.gita!bhagavadgitavivarana-sarvatobhadra.1.293) — Sanskrit - [Bhagavadāśayānusaraṇabhāṣya](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darsana.all.gita!bhaskara.127.7) — Bhāskara (Vedāntin), Sanskrit - [Gītābhāṣya (of Rāmānuja)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darsana.all.gita!ramanuja.2.42) — Rāmānuja, Sanskrit - [Tātparyabodhinī](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darsana.all.gita!samkarananda.4.42) — Śaṅkarānanda, Sanskrit - [Sārārthavarṣiṇī](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darsana.all.gita!visvanatha.2.42) — Viśvanātha Cakravartin 1680, Sanskrit - [Bālabodhinī](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darsana.all.gita!g-s-pathak.2.41) — G.S. Pathak 1825, Sanskrit ## Other recensions (1) - [Vulgate (700 verses)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darsana.all.gita*vulgate.2.42) — Sanskrit ## Linked texts (3) - [Mahābhārata](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.mahabharata.vyasa.6.24.42) — Vyāsa, Sanskrit - [Vulgate (Nīlakaṇṭha's text)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.mahabharata.vyasa*vulgate.6.26.42) — Sanskrit - [Jīvanmuktiviveka](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darsana.advaita.sastra.jivanmuktiviveka.2.17_2.p14) — Mādhava, Sanskrit --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.darsana.all.gita.2.42](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darsana.all.gita.2.42) · Pramāṇa