# Bhagavad Gita 4.2

**Canonical reference:** `gita.4.2`  
**Speaker:** Krishna  
**Corpus version:** gita-1.0.0-rc.1

## Sanskrit (Devanagari)

एवं परम्पराप्राप्तमिमं राजर्षयो विदुः।
स कालेनेह महता योगो नष्टः परन्तप ॥

## IAST

evaṃ paramparāprāptamimaṃ rājarṣayo viduḥ
sa kāleneha mahatā yogo naṣṭaḥ parantapa

## English — Kashinath Trimbak Telang, 1882

it became known to royal sages. But O terror of (your) foes! that devotion was lost to the world by long (lapse of) time. That same primeval devotion I have declared to you to-day

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