# Bhagavad Gita 2.36

**Canonical reference:** `gita.2.36`  
**Speaker:** Krishna  
**Corpus version:** gita-1.0.0-rc.1

## Sanskrit (Devanagari)

अवाच्यवादांश्च बहून्वदिष्यन्ति तवाहिताः।
निन्दन्तस्तव सामर्थ्यं ततो दुःखतरं नु किम् ॥

## IAST

avācyavādāṃśca bahūnvadiṣyanti tavāhitāḥ
nindantastava sāmarthyaṃ tato duḥkhataraṃ nu kim

## English — Kashinath Trimbak Telang, 1882

you will fall down to littleness. Your enemies, too, decrying your power, will speak much about you that should not be spoken. And what, indeed, more lamentable than that?

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