# Bhagavad Gita 4.29

**Canonical reference:** `gita.4.29`  
**Speaker:** Krishna  
**Corpus version:** gita-1.0.0-rc.1

## Sanskrit (Devanagari)

अपाने जुह्वति प्राणं प्राणेऽपानं तथापरे।
प्राणापानगती रुद्ध्वा प्राणायामपरायणाः ॥

## IAST

apāne juhvati prāṇaṃ prāṇe.apānaṃ tathāpare
prāṇāpānagatī ruddhvā prāṇāyāmaparāyaṇāḥ

## English — Kashinath Trimbak Telang, 1882

Some offer up the upward life-breath into the downward life-breath and the downward life-breath into the upper life-breath and stopping up the motions of the upward and downward life-breaths devote themselves to the restraint of the life-breaths.

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