Shankaracharya's commentary, trans. Alladi Mahadeva Sastry (1897)
[1]Whenever there is decay of righteousness and rise of unrighteousness, O Bharata, then I manifest Myself.
BG 4.7
यदा यदा हि धर्मस्य ग्लानिर्भवति भारत । अभ्युत्थानमधर्मस्य तदात्मानं सृजाम्यहम् ॥
yadā yadā hi dharmasya glānir bhavati bhārata | abhyutthānam adharmasya tadātmānaṃ sṛjāmy aham ||
"Whenever dharma declines and adharma rises — I project Myself forth. The divine responds to every crisis."
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Swami Swarupananda, Srimad Bhagavad Gita (1909)
[4]Whenever there is a decline of righteousness and rise of unrighteousness, O Bharata, then I project Myself forth.
William Quan Judge, The Bhagavad Gita (1890)
[6]Whenever there is a decline of virtue and an insurrection of vice and injustice in the world, then do I come forth.
Sir Edwin Arnold, The Song Celestial (1885)
[7]When righteousness Withers away, and lawlessness uprises, O! then I draw Myself forth!
K.T. Telang, Sacred Books of the East Vol. 8 (1882)
[9]Whenever there is decay of righteousness, and there is exaltation of unrighteousness, then I myself come forth.