Verset 18.47
श्रेयान्स्वधर्मो विगुणः परधर्मात्स्वनुष्ठितात् ।
स्वभावनियतं कर्म कुर्वन्नाप्नोति किल्बिषम् ॥
Translittération
śreyānsvadharmo viguṇaḥ paradharmātsvanuṣṭhitāt |
svabhāvaniyataṃ karma kurvannāpnoti kilbiṣam ||
Par Sanskrit System · Brouillon automatique · @indic-transliteration/sanscript 1.3.3
Traduction
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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Better one's own dharma, though imperfect, than another's dharma well performed. Doing the work set by one's own nature, one incurs no fault.
Par Sanskrit System · Brouillon automatique · claude-opus-5-5 · 2026-11-08 · +1 de plus
Mot à mot
Par Sanskrit System · Brouillon automatique · claude-opus-5-5 · 2026-11-08
Explication
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.
Par Sanskrit System · Brouillon automatique · claude-opus-5-5 · 2026-11-08