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# The Great Epic of the Bhārata dynasty 6.36.7

Mahābhārata 6.36.7

- **Language:** Sanskrit

### [6.36.7](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.mahabharata.vyasa.6.36.7)

rajo rāgātmakaṃ viddhi tṛṣṇāsaṅgasamudbhavam |  
tannibadhnāti kaunteya karmasaṅgena dehinam || 7 ||

> Know Rajas to be of the nature of passion, giving rise to thirst and attachment;  
> it binds fast, O son of Kunti, the embodied one, by attachment to action.  
> — 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.14.7) — Swami Swarupananda 1909, English
- [The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.mahabharata.vyasa~en-ganguli.6.38.2) — Kisari Mohan Ganguli 1883, English

## Commentaries (1)

- [Bhāratabhāvadīpa](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.mahabharata.vyasa!nilakantha.6.38.7) — Nīlakaṇṭha Caturdhara 1650, Sanskrit

## Other recensions (2)

- [Southern recension](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.mahabharata.vyasa*southern.6.38.7) — Sanskrit
- [Vulgate (Nīlakaṇṭha's text)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.mahabharata.vyasa*vulgate.6.38.7) — Sanskrit

## Linked texts (2)

- [Bhagavadgītā](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darsana.all.gita.14.7) — Vyāsa, Sanskrit
- [Vulgate (700 verses)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darsana.all.gita*vulgate.14.7) — Sanskrit

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