# Bhagavad Gita 3.40

**Canonical reference:** `gita.3.40`  
**Speaker:** Krishna  
**Corpus version:** gita-1.0.0-rc.1

## Sanskrit (Devanagari)

इन्द्रियाणि मनो बुद्धिरस्याधिष्ठानमुच्यते।
एतैर्विमोहयत्येष ज्ञानमावृत्य देहिनम् ॥

## IAST

indriyāṇi mano buddhirasyādhiṣṭhānamucyate
etairvimohayatyeṣa jñānamāvṛtya dehinam

## English — Kashinath Trimbak Telang, 1882

The senses, the mind, and the understanding are said to be its seat with these it deludes the embodied (self) after enveloping knowledge.

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