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# The Great Epic of the Bhārata dynasty 6.38.24

Mahābhārata 6.38.24

- **Language:** Sanskrit

### [6.38.24](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.mahabharata.vyasa.6.38.24)

tasmācchāstraṃ pramāṇaṃ te kāryākāryavyavasthitau |  
jñātvā śāstravidhānoktaṃ karma kartumihārhasi || 24 ||

> So let the Shâstra be thy authority in ascertaining what ought to be done and what ought not to be done. Having known what is said in the ordinance of the Shâstra, thou shouldst act here.  
> The end of the Sixteenth Chapter designated: The Classification of the Divine and the Non-Divine Attributes.  
> — 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.16.24) — Swami Swarupananda 1909, English
- [The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.mahabharata.vyasa~en-ganguli.6.40.1) — Kisari Mohan Ganguli 1883, English

## Commentaries (1)

- [Bhāratabhāvadīpa](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.mahabharata.vyasa!nilakantha.6.40.24) — Nīlakaṇṭha Caturdhara 1650, Sanskrit

## Other recensions (2)

- [Southern recension](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.mahabharata.vyasa*southern.6.40.24) — Sanskrit
- [Vulgate (Nīlakaṇṭha's text)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.mahabharata.vyasa*vulgate.6.40.24) — Sanskrit

## Linked texts (3)

- [Bhagavadgītā](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darsana.all.gita.16.24) — Vyāsa, Sanskrit
- [Vulgate (700 verses)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darsana.all.gita*vulgate.16.24) — Sanskrit
- [Daśanirṇaya](https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.dharma.nibandha.nirnaya.dasanirnaya.1.p14) — Veṅkaṭanātha Vaidikasārvabhauma, Sanskrit

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