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Bhagavad Gītā 8.17

BG 8.17

सहस्रयुगपर्यन्तमहर्यद्ब्रह्मणो विदुः। रात्रिं युगसहस्रान्तां तेऽहोरात्रविदो जनाः

sahasra-yuga-paryantam ahar yad brahmaṇo viduḥ rātriṁ yuga-sahasrāntāṁ te ’ho-rātra-vido janāḥ

Those who understand the cosmic day and night know that one day of creation is a thousand cycles, and that the night is of equal length.

Translated by Shri Purohit Swami

Those who know the day of Brahma, which lasts a thousand Yugas, and the night, which also lasts a thousand Yugas, know day and night.

Translated by Swami Sivananda

Word meanings (from the gita/gita dataset)

sahasra—one thousand; yuga—age; paryantam—until; ahaḥ—one day; yat—which; brahmaṇaḥ—of Brahma; viduḥ—know; rātrim—night; yuga-sahasra-antām—lasts one thousand yugas; te—they; ahaḥ-rātra-vidaḥ—those who know his day and night; janāḥ—people

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Cite as: Bhagavad Gītā 8.17, in HREEM (hreem.cc/library/BG/8.17), after https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/gh/gita/gita@main (gita/gita on GitHub, Unlicense).

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

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