Chapter 8

Verse 25

Bhagavad Gita

धूमो रात्रिस्तथा कृष्णः षण्मासा दक्षिणायनम् |
तत्र चान्द्रमसं ज्योतिर्योगी प्राप्य निवर्तते ||८-२५||
Transliteration

dhūmo rātristathā kṛṣṇaḥ ṣaṇmāsā dakṣiṇāyanam .
tatra cāndramasaṃ jyotiryogī prāpya nivartate ||8-25||
English Meaning

8.25 But if he departs in gloom, at night, during the fortnight of the waning moon and in the six months before the Southern solstice, then he reaches but lunar light and he will be born again.