Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam

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<< VERSE 38 >>

atrāpi bahvṛcair gītaṁ
śṛṇu me ’sura-sattama
satyam om iti yat proktaṁ
yan nety āhānṛtaṁ hi tat

WORD BY WORD



TRANSLATION

One might argue that since you have already promised, how can you refuse? O best of the demons, just take from me the evidence of the Bahvṛca-śruti, which says that a promise is truthful preceded by the word om and untruthful if not.

PURPORT

This verse has not purport by His Divine Grace A.C. Bhaktivedanta Svāmi Prabhupāda.



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