# Bhagavad Gita 18.31

**Canonical reference:** `gita.18.31`  
**Speaker:** Krishna  
**Corpus version:** gita-1.0.0-rc.1

## Sanskrit (Devanagari)

यया धर्ममधर्मं च कार्यं चाकार्यमेव च।
अयथावत्प्रजानाति बुद्धिः सा पार्थ राजसी ॥

## IAST

yayā dharmamadharmaṃ ca kāryaṃ cākāryameva ca
ayathāvatprajānāti buddhiḥ sā pārtha rājasī

## English — Kashinath Trimbak Telang, 1882

by which one imperfectly understands piety and impiety what ought to be done and also what ought not to be done. That intelligence O son of Pṛthā! is dark which shrouded by darkness

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