Bhagavad Gita, Chapter 4, Verse 30
अपरे नियताहाराः प्राणान्प्राणेषु जुह्वति । सर्वेऽप्येते यज्ञविदो यज्ञक्षपितकल्मषाः
apare niyatāhārāḥ prāṇānprāṇeṣu juhvati | sarve'pyete yajñavido yajñakṣapitakalmaṣāḥ
Translation
Others, with regulated food, offer life-breaths in life-breaths. All these are knowers of sacrifice, whose sins are destroyed by sacrifice.
— Alladi Mahadeva Sastri
Word meanings
- apare
- others
- niyatāhārāḥ
- restrained, food, whose, they
- prāṇān
- life-breaths
- prāṇeṣu
- in life-breaths
- juhvati
- sacrifice
- sarve
- all
- api
- also
- ete
- these
- yajñavidaḥ
- sacrifice-knowers
- yajñakṣapitakalmaṣāḥ
- by sacrifice, thrown away, sins, whose, they
Śaṅkarācārya's commentary
Regulated: limited. Whatever life-breath has been controlled, into it they sacrifice all other life-breaths; these latter become, as it were, merged in the former.