Sanskrit
अच्छेद्योऽयमदाह्योऽयमक्लेद्योऽशोष्य एव च । नित्यः सर्वगतः स्थाणुरचलोऽयं सनातनः ॥
acchedyo'yam adāhyo'yam akledyo'śoṣya eva ca nityaḥ sarvagataḥ sthāṇur acalo'yaṃ sanātanaḥ
Translation
Uncleavable he, incombustible he, and indeed neither to be wetted nor dried away; perpetual, all-pervasive, stable, immovable, ancient.
Annie Besant · The Bhagavad-Gita, translated by Annie Besant (4th ed., 1922) — Wikisource · Public Domain
Explanation
Restates verse 23’s fourfold immunity (uncuttable, unburnable, unwettable, undrying) in adjectival form, then adds a second set of descriptors — perpetual, all-pervading, stable, immovable, ancient. The repetition is deliberate: this isn’t new argument so much as insistence, piling up near-synonyms until the claim of indestructibility becomes unmistakable.
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