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# The Great Epic of the Bhārata dynasty 6.28.16

Mahābhārata 6.28.16

- **Language:** Sanskrit

### [6.28.16](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.mahabharata.vyasa.6.28.16)

nātyaśnatastu yogo'sti na caikāntamanaśnataḥ |  
na cātisvapnaśīlasya jāgrato naiva cārjuna || 16 ||

> (Success in) Yoga is not for him who eats too much or too little—nor, O Arjuna, for him who sleeps too much or too little.  
> — 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.6.16) — Swami Swarupananda 1909, English
- [The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.mahabharata.vyasa~en-ganguli.6.30.1.3) — Kisari Mohan Ganguli 1883, English

## Commentaries (5)

- [Bhāratabhāvadīpa](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.mahabharata.vyasa!nilakantha.6.30.16) — Nīlakaṇṭha Caturdhara 1650, Sanskrit
- [Jñānadīpikā](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.mahabharata.vyasa!devabodha) — Devabodha, Sanskrit
- [Lakṣaślokālaṅkāra](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.mahabharata.vyasa!vadiraja) — Vādirāja, Sanskrit
- [Mahābhārataṭīkā](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.mahabharata.vyasa!nilakantha-mahabharatatika) — Nīlakaṇṭha Dīkṣita, Sanskrit
- [Lakṣābharaṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.mahabharata.vyasa!vadiraja-laksabharana) — Vādirāja Sūri, Sanskrit

## Other recensions (2)

- [Southern recension](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.mahabharata.vyasa*southern.6.30.16) — Sanskrit
- [Vulgate (Nīlakaṇṭha's text)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.mahabharata.vyasa*vulgate.6.30.16) — Sanskrit

## Linked texts (1)

- [Bhagavadgītā](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darsana.all.gita.6.16) — Vyāsa, Sanskrit

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