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# The Great Epic of the Bhārata dynasty 6.31.3

Mahābhārata 6.31.3

- **Language:** Sanskrit

### [6.31.3](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.mahabharata.vyasa.6.31.3)

aśraddadhānāḥ puruṣā dharmasyāsya paraṃtapa |  
aprāpya māṃ nivartante mṛtyusaṃsāravartmani || 3 ||

> Persons without Shraddhâ for this Dharma, return, O scorcher of foes, without attaining Me, to the path of re-birth fraught with death.  
> — 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.9.3) — Swami Swarupananda 1909, English
- [The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.mahabharata.vyasa~en-ganguli.6.33.1.1) — Kisari Mohan Ganguli 1883, English

## Commentaries (1)

- [Bhāratabhāvadīpa](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.mahabharata.vyasa!nilakantha.6.33.3) — Nīlakaṇṭha Caturdhara 1650, Sanskrit

## Other recensions (2)

- [Southern recension](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.mahabharata.vyasa*southern.6.33.3) — Sanskrit
- [Vulgate (Nīlakaṇṭha's text)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.mahabharata.vyasa*vulgate.6.33.3) — Sanskrit

## Linked texts (3)

- [Bhagavadgītā](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darsana.all.gita.9.3) — Vyāsa, Sanskrit
- [Śāktapramoda](https://indike.org/pramana/in.sampradaya.general.sakta.saktapramoda.7.144) — Sanskrit
- [Vulgate (700 verses)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darsana.all.gita*vulgate.9.3) — Sanskrit

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