BG 2.46

यावानर्थ उदपाने सर्वतः सम्प्लुतोदके। तावान्सर्वेषु वेदेषु ब्राह्मणस्य विजानतः॥

yāvān artha udapāne sarvataḥ samplutodake / tāvān sarveṣu vedeṣu brāhmaṇasya vijānataḥ

"When you have the ocean, what need is there for a well? When you have Self-knowledge, the Vedas serve a smaller purpose."

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

Swami Swarupananda, Srimad Bhagavad Gita (1909)

[4]
As much use as there is in a well when water flows on all sides, so much is there in all the Vedas for a Brahmin who has the knowledge.

William Quan Judge, The Bhagavad Gita (1890)

[6]
As is the use of a well of water where there is a flood on all sides, so is the result of all Vedic literature to the Brahmin who has knowledge.

Sir Edwin Arnold, The Song Celestial (1885)

[7]
As, when the flood is risen, men have no use for the well; so does the seer who knows have no use for all the scriptures.

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

[9]
As much use as there is in a tank when there is a flood everywhere, so much is there in all the Vedas for a Brahmin who knows.