Verse 9.8

प्रकृतिं स्वामवष्टभ्य विसृजामि पुनः पुनः ।

भूतग्राममिमं कृत्स्नमवशं प्रकृतेर्वशात् ॥

9.8

Transliteration

prakṛtiṃ svāmavaṣṭabhya visṛjāmi punaḥ punaḥ |

bhūtagrāmamimaṃ kṛtsnamavaśaṃ prakṛtervaśāt ||

By Sanskrit System · Machine draft · @indic-transliteration/sanscript 1.3.3

Translation

Animating My Nature, I again and again send forth all this multitude of beings, helpless by the force of the Nature.

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Word by word

nature
my own
taking hold of
I send forth
again
and again

multitude of beings
this
entire
helpless
of nature
by the force

By Sanskrit System · Machine draft · claude-opus-5-5 · 2026-11-08

Explanation

Taking hold of his own nature, Krishna sends forth again and again this whole host of beings. They are helpless, avaśa, under the power of nature. The verse contrasts divine freedom with creaturely bondage. Beings are shaped by forces they do not control: their past actions, their dispositions and the qualities that compose them. Krishna works through nature as an instrument. The question that naturally arises, whether such activity binds him, is answered in the next verse.