# Bhagavad Gita 18.34

**Canonical reference:** `gita.18.34`  
**Speaker:** Krishna  
**Corpus version:** gita-1.0.0-rc.1

## Sanskrit (Devanagari)

यया तु धर्मकामार्थान्धृत्या धारयतेऽर्जुन।
प्रसङ्गेन फलाकाङ्क्षी धृतिः सा पार्थ राजसी ॥

## IAST

yayā tu dharmakāmārthāndhṛtyā dhārayate.arjuna
prasaṅgena phalākāṅkṣī dhṛtiḥ sā pārtha rājasī

## English — Kashinath Trimbak Telang, 1882

through abstraction. But O Arjuna! that courage is passionate by which one adheres to piety lust and wealth and through attachment wishes O son of Pṛthā! for the fruit That courage is dark

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