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# The Great Epic of the Bhārata dynasty 6.26.20

Mahābhārata 6.26.20

- **Language:** Sanskrit

### [6.26.20](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.mahabharata.vyasa.6.26.20)

tyaktvā karmaphalāsaṅgaṃ nityatṛpto nirāśrayaḥ |  
karmaṇyabhipravṛtto'pi naiva kiṃcitkaroti saḥ || 20 ||

> Forsaking the clinging to fruits of action, ever satisfied, depending on nothing, though engaged in action, he does not do anything.  
> — Swami Swarupananda 1909, Srimad-Bhagavad-Gita

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## Translations (2)

- [Srimad-Bhagavad-Gita](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darsana.all.gita~en-swarupananda.4.20) — Swami Swarupananda 1909, English
- [The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.mahabharata.vyasa~en-ganguli.6.28.3.2) — Kisari Mohan Ganguli 1883, English

## Commentaries (1)

- [Bhāratabhāvadīpa](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.mahabharata.vyasa!nilakantha.6.28.20) — Nīlakaṇṭha Caturdhara 1650, Sanskrit

## Other recensions (2)

- [Southern recension](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.mahabharata.vyasa*southern.6.28.20) — Sanskrit
- [Vulgate (Nīlakaṇṭha's text)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.mahabharata.vyasa*vulgate.6.28.20) — Sanskrit

## Linked texts (2)

- [Bhagavadgītā](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darsana.all.gita.4.20) — Vyāsa, Sanskrit
- [Vulgate (700 verses)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darsana.all.gita*vulgate.4.20) — Sanskrit

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