Sanskrit

श्रेयान्स्वधर्मो विगुणः परधर्मात्स्वनुष्ठितात् ।

स्वभावनियतं कर्म कुर्वन्नाप्नोति किल्बिषम् ॥

18.47

Transliterasyon

śreyānsvadharmo viguṇaḥ paradharmātsvanuṣṭhitāt |

svabhāvaniyataṃ karma kurvannāpnoti kilbiṣam ||

Ni Sanskrit System · Draft ng makina · @indic-transliteration/sanscript 1.3.3

Salin

Better is one's own duty (though) destitute of merits, than the duty of another well performed. He who does the duty ordained by his own nature incurs no sin.

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Ni Sanskrit System · Draft ng makina · claude-opus-5-5 · 2026-11-08

Paliwanag

Krishna repeats a teaching from earlier in the dialogue: one's own dharma (svadharma), even if imperfectly done, is better than another's dharma done well. Acting according to one's nature, one incurs no fault. For Arjuna this is pointed. He had thought of leaving the warrior's path for a renunciant's life. Krishna tells him that following a path that fits his own nature, even with its difficulties, is better than imitating another's.

Ni Sanskrit System · Draft ng makina · claude-opus-5-5 · 2026-11-08