# Bhagavad Gita 2.18

**Canonical reference:** `gita.2.18`  
**Speaker:** Krishna  
**Corpus version:** gita-1.0.0-rc.1

## Sanskrit (Devanagari)

अन्तवन्त इमे देहा नित्यस्योक्ताः शरीरिणः।
अनाशिनोऽप्रमेयस्य तस्माद्युध्यस्व भारत ॥

## IAST

antavanta ime dehā nityasyoktāḥ śarīriṇaḥ
anāśino.aprameyasya tasmādyudhyasva bhārata

## English — Kashinath Trimbak Telang, 1882

These bodies appertaining to the embodied (self) which is eternal, indestructible, and indefinable, are said to be perishable therefore do engage in battle, O descendant of Bharata!

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