# Bhagavad Gita 4.7

**Canonical reference:** `gita.4.7`  
**Speaker:** Krishna  
**Corpus version:** gita-1.0.0-rc.1

## Sanskrit (Devanagari)

यदा यदा हि धर्मस्य ग्लानिर्भवति भारत।
अभ्युत्थानमधर्मस्य तदात्मानं सृजाम्यहम् ॥

## IAST

yadā yadā hi dharmasya glānirbhavati bhārata
abhyutthānamadharmasya tadātmānaṃ sṛjāmyaham

## English — Kashinath Trimbak Telang, 1882

Whensoever, O descendant of Bharata! piety languishes, and impiety is in the ascendant, I create myself.

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