BG 2.21

वेदाविनाशिनं नित्यं य एनमजमव्ययम्। कथं स पुरुषः पार्थ कं घातयति हन्ति कम्॥

vedāvināśinaṃ nityaṃ ya enam ajam avyayam / kathaṃ sa puruṣaḥ pārtha kaṃ ghātayati hanti kam

"If you know the soul is indestructible — who kills whom?"

All public-domain translations

3 translations · all pre-1928 or released to public domain · sources

Swami Swarupananda, Srimad Bhagavad Gita (1909)

[4]
O Partha, how can that man who knows this to be indestructible, eternal, unborn, and immutable, kill anyone or cause anyone to be killed?

Sir Edwin Arnold, The Song Celestial (1885)

[7]
Who knows it birthless, knows it deathless, knows it everlasting, knows it ancient — how can such kill? How can he cause to kill?

K.T. Telang, Sacred Books of the East Vol. 8 (1882)

[9]
O son of Pritha, how can that man who knows this soul to be indestructible, eternal, unborn, and inexhaustible, slay any person or cause any person to be slain?