# Bhagavad Gita 8.17

**Canonical reference:** `gita.8.17`  
**Speaker:** Krishna  
**Corpus version:** gita-1.0.0-rc.1

## Sanskrit (Devanagari)

सहस्रयुगपर्यन्तमहर्यद् ब्रह्मणो विदुः।
रात्रिं युगसहस्रान्तां तेऽहोरात्रविदो जनाः ॥

## IAST

sahasrayugaparyantamaharyad brahmaṇo viduḥ
rātriṃ yugasahasrāntāṃ te.ahorātravido janāḥ

## English — Kashinath Trimbak Telang, 1882

Those who know a day of Brahman to end after one thousand ages and the night to terminate after one thousand ages are the persons who know day and night. On the advent of day

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