# Bhagavad Gita 4.13

**Canonical reference:** `gita.4.13`  
**Speaker:** Krishna  
**Corpus version:** gita-1.0.0-rc.1

## Sanskrit (Devanagari)

चातुर्वर्ण्यं मया सृष्टं गुणकर्मविभागशः।
तस्य कर्तारमपि मां विद्ध्यकर्तारमव्ययम् ॥

## IAST

cāturvarṇyaṃ mayā sṛṣṭaṃ guṇakarmavibhāgaśaḥ
tasya kartāramapi māṃ viddhyakartāramavyayam

## English — Kashinath Trimbak Telang, 1882

The fourfold division of castes was created by me according to the apportionment of qualities and duties. But though I am its author know me to be inexhaustible and not the author.

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