# Bhagavad Gita 2.46

**Canonical reference:** `gita.2.46`  
**Speaker:** Krishna  
**Corpus version:** gita-1.0.0-rc.1

## Sanskrit (Devanagari)

यावानर्थ उदपाने सर्वतः सम्प्लुतोदके।
तावान्सर्वेषु वेदेषु ब्राह्मणस्य विजानतः ॥

## IAST

yāvānartha udapāne sarvataḥ samplutodake
tāvānsarveṣu vedeṣu brāhmaṇasya vijānataḥ

## English — Kashinath Trimbak Telang, 1882

and be self-controlled. To the instructed Brāhmaṇa there is in all the Vedas as much utility as in a reservoir of water into which waters flow from all sides.

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