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Bhagavad Gītā 5.18

BG 5.18

विद्याविनयसंपन्ने ब्राह्मणे गवि हस्तिनि। शुनि चैव श्वपाके च पण्डिताः समदर्शिनः

vidyā-vinaya-sampanne brāhmaṇe gavi hastini śhuni chaiva śhva-pāke cha paṇḍitāḥ sama-darśhinaḥ

Sages look upon all equally, whether they be a minister of learning and humility, an infidel, a cow, an elephant, or a dog.

Translated by Shri Purohit Swami

Sages look with an equal eye on a Brahmana endowed with learning and humility, on a cow, an elephant, a dog, and even an outcaste.

Translated by Swami Sivananda

Word meanings (from the gita/gita dataset)

vidyā—divine knowledge; vinaya—humbleness; sampanne—equipped with; brāhmaṇe—a Brahmin; gavi—a cow; hastini—an elephant; śhuni—a dog; cha—and; eva—certainly; śhva-pāke—a dog-eater; cha—and; paṇḍitāḥ—the learned; sama-darśhinaḥ—see with equal vision

Permanent address: hreem.cc/library/BG/5.18

Cite as: Bhagavad Gītā 5.18, in HREEM (hreem.cc/library/BG/5.18), after https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/gh/gita/gita@main (gita/gita on GitHub, Unlicense).

Edition, numbering and licence

https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/gh/gita/gita@main (gita/gita on GitHub, Unlicense)

Dataset: Unlicense (public domain dedication). Translations: see per-translation licence.

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