# Bhagavad Gita 15.18

**Canonical reference:** `gita.15.18`  
**Speaker:** Krishna  
**Corpus version:** gita-1.0.0-rc.1

## Sanskrit (Devanagari)

यस्मात्क्षरमतीतोऽहमक्षरादपि चोत्तमः।
अतोऽस्मि लोके वेदे च प्रथितः पुरुषोत्तमः ॥

## IAST

yasmātkṣaramatīto.ahamakṣarādapi cottamaḥ
ato.asmi loke vedeca prathitaḥ puruṣottamaḥ

## English — Kashinath Trimbak Telang, 1882

supports (them). And since I transcend the destructible and since I am higher also than the indestructible therefore am I celebrated in the world and in the Vedas as the best of beings.

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