# Bhagavad Gita 3.24

**Canonical reference:** `gita.3.24`  
**Speaker:** Krishna  
**Corpus version:** gita-1.0.0-rc.1

## Sanskrit (Devanagari)

उत्सीदेयुरिमे लोका न कुर्यां कर्म चेदहम्।
सङ्करस्य च कर्ता स्यामुपहन्यामिमाः प्रजाः ॥

## IAST

utsīdeyurime lokā na kuryāṃ karma cedaham
saṅkarasya ca kartā syāmupahanyāmimāḥ prajāḥ

## English — Kashinath Trimbak Telang, 1882

O son of Pṛthā! If I did not perform actions, these worlds would be destroyed, I should be the cause of caste interminglings and I should be ruining these people. As the ignorant act

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