Mūla — the verse
Gita Press numberingTranslation
Swami Gambhīrānanda · follows Śaṅkara-bhāṣyaThe learned ones look with equanimity on a Brahmana endowed with learning and humility, a cow, an elephant, and even a dog, as well as one who eats dog meat.
हिन्दी अनुवाद — Swami Tejomayānanda
(ऐसे वे) ज्ञानीजन विद्या और विनय से सम्पन्न ब्राह्मण, तथा गाय, हाथी, श्वान और चाण्डाल में भी सम तत्त्व को देखते हैं।।
Pronunciation — Vaamshii
from VaamshiiWord by word
padārthaThemes
from The Thematic Companion to the Bhagavad GītāMeaning — Questions & Solutions
from Q&A with KnA“The wise see with an equal eye a Brāhmaṇa endowed with learning and humility, a cow, an elephant, a dog, and one who eats dog's flesh.” The Paṇḍita here is not the bookish scholar but the sama-darśin, the one of equal vision, who perceives the single Self shining equally through every form, high or low, clean or unclean. Learning that does not issue in this vision does not, for Kṛṣṇa, deserve the name of wisdom at all. True paṇḍitya is measured not by how much one knows but by how evenly one sees.