# Bhagavad Gita 9.18

**Canonical reference:** `gita.9.18`  
**Speaker:** Krishna  
**Corpus version:** gita-1.0.0-rc.1

## Sanskrit (Devanagari)

गतिर्भर्ता प्रभुः साक्षी निवासः शरणं सुहृत्।
प्रभवः प्रलयः स्थानं निधानं बीजमव्ययम् ॥

## IAST

gatirbhartā prabhuḥ sākṣī nivāsaḥ śaraṇaṃ suhṛt
prabhavaḥ pralayaḥ sthānaṃ nidhānaṃ bījamavyayam

## English — Kashinath Trimbak Telang, 1882

the goal the sustainer the lord the supervisor the residence the asylum the friend the source and that in which it merges the support the receptacle and the inexhaustible seed.

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