# Bhagavad Gita 18.17

**Canonical reference:** `gita.18.17`  
**Speaker:** Krishna  
**Corpus version:** gita-1.0.0-rc.1

## Sanskrit (Devanagari)

यस्य नाहंकृतो भावो बुद्धिर्यस्य न लिप्यते।
हत्वाऽपि स इमाँल्लोकान्न हन्ति न निबध्यते ॥

## IAST

yasya nāhaṃkṛto bhāvo buddhiryasya na lipyate
hatvā.api sa imā.Nllokānna hanti na nibadhyate

## English — Kashinath Trimbak Telang, 1882

sees not (rightly). He who has no feeling of egoism, and whose mind is not tainted, even though he kills (all) these people, kills not, is not fettered, (by the action).

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