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# The Great Epic of the Bhārata dynasty 6.40.17

Mahābhārata 6.40.17

- **Language:** Sanskrit

### [6.40.17](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.mahabharata.vyasa.6.40.17)

yasya nāhaṃkṛto bhāvo buddhiryasya na lipyate |  
hatvāpi sa imām̐llokānna hanti na nibadhyate || 17 ||

> He who is free from the notion of egoism, whose intelligence is not affected (by good or evil), though he kills these people, he kills not, nor is bound (by the 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.18.17) — Swami Swarupananda 1909, English
- [The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.mahabharata.vyasa~en-ganguli.6.42.3.2) — Kisari Mohan Ganguli 1883, English

## Commentaries (5)

- [Bhāratabhāvadīpa](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.mahabharata.vyasa!nilakantha.6.42.17) — Nīlakaṇṭha Caturdhara 1650, Sanskrit
- [Mahābhārataṭīkā](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.mahabharata.vyasa!nilakantha-mahabharatatika.4.p21) — Nīlakaṇṭha Dīkṣita, 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
- [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.6.42.17) — Sanskrit
- [Vulgate (Nīlakaṇṭha's text)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.mahabharata.vyasa*vulgate.6.42.17) — Sanskrit

## Linked texts (1)

- [Bhagavadgītā](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darsana.all.gita.18.17) — Vyāsa, Sanskrit

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