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Krishna

4.28 द्रव्ययज्ञास्तपोयज्ञा योगयज्ञास्तथापरे। स्वाध्यायज्ञानयज्ञाश्च यतयः संशितव्रताः

dravyayajñāstapoyajñā yogayajñāstathāpare | svādhyāyajñānayajñāśca yatayaḥ saṃśitavratāḥ

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dravya-yajñāḥ—offering one’s own wealth as sacrifice;tapaḥ-yajñāḥ—offering severe austerities as sacrifice;yoga-yajñāḥ—performance of eight-fold path of yogic practices as sacrifice;tathā—thus;apare—others;swādhyāya—cultivating knowledge by studying the scriptures;jñāna-yajñāḥ—those offer cultivation of transcendental knowledge as sacrifice;cha—also;yatayaḥ—these ascetics;sanśhita-vratāḥ—observing strict vows

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Dr. S. Sankaranarayan

These are the performers of sacrifices with material objects, the performers of sacrifices with penance, and the performers of sacrifices with Yoga. Likewise, there are other ascetics with rigid vows whose sacrifices are the svadhyaya-knowledge.

Shri Purohit Swami

And yet others offer as their sacrifice wealth, austerities and meditation. Monks wedded to their vows renounce their scriptural learning and even their spiritual powers.

Swami Adidevananda

Self-controlled and firm of resolve, others perform the sacrifice of material objects or austerities or Yoga; while others offer their scriptural study and knowledge.

Swami Gambirananda

Similarly, others are performers of sacrifices through wealth, through austerity, through yoga, and through study and knowledge; others are ascetics with severe vows.

Swami Sivananda

Some again offer wealth, austerity and Yoga as sacrifice, while the ascetics of self-restraint and rigid vows offer study of scriptures and knowledge as sacrifice.

Krishna

4.30 अपरे नियताहाराः प्राणान्प्राणेषु जुह्वति। सर्वेऽप्येते यज्ञविदो यज्ञक्षपितकल्मषाः

apare niyatāhārāḥ prāṇānprāṇeṣu juhvati | sarve'pyete yajñavido yajñakṣapitakalmaṣāḥ

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apare—others;niyata—having controlled;āhārāḥ—food intake;prāṇān—life-breaths;prāṇeṣhu—life-energy;juhvati—sacrifice;sarve—all;api—also;ete—these;yajña-vidaḥ—knowers of sacrifices;yajña-kṣhapita—being cleansed by performances of sacrifices;kalmaṣhāḥ—of impurities

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With their desires fulfilled by the above activities, and with their food restricted, all these persons know what sacrifices are and have their sins destroyed by sacrifices.

Shri Purohit Swami

Others, controlling their diet, sacrifice their worldly life to the spiritual fire. All understand the principal of sacrifice, and by its means their sins are washed away.

Swami Adidevananda

All these know the meaning of sacrifices and through sacrifices are their sins eradicated. Those who subsist on the ambrosial food, the remnants of sacrifices, go to eternal Brahman.

Swami Gambirananda

Others, having their food regulated, offer the vital forces in the vital forces. All of them are knowers of the sacrifice and have their sins destroyed by sacrifice.

Swami Sivananda

Others who regulate their diet offer life-breaths in life-breaths; all these are knowers of sacrifice, whose sins are all destroyed by sacrifice.

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4.29 अपाने जुह्वति प्राण प्राणेऽपानं तथाऽपरे। प्राणापानगती रुद्ध्वा प्राणायामपरायणाः

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apāne—the incoming breath;juhvati—offer;prāṇam—the outgoing breath;prāṇe—in the outgoing breath;apānam—incoming breath;tathā—also;apare—others;prāṇa—of the outgoing breath;apāna—and the incoming breath;gatī—movement;ruddhvā—blocking;prāṇa-āyāma—control of breath;parāyaṇāḥ—wholly devoted

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Dr. S. Sankaranarayan

[Some sages] offer the prana into the apana; likewise, others offer the apana into the prana. Having controlled both the courses of the prana and apana, the same sages offer the pranas into pranas.

Shri Purohit Swami

There are some who practise control of the Vital Energy and govern the subtle forces of Prana and Apana, thereby sacrificing their Prana unto Apana, or their Apana unto Prana.

Swami Adidevananda

Others, with restricted diet, are devoted to the control of breath. Some sacrifice the inward breath in the outward breath. Similarly others sacrifice the outward breath in the inward breath. Some others, stopping the flow of both the inward breath and the outward, sacrifice the inward breaths and outward breaths.

Swami Gambirananda

Constantly practising control of the vital forces by stopping the movements of the outgoing and the incoming breaths, some offer as a sacrifice the outgoing breath in the incoming breath; while still others, the incoming breath in the outgoing breath.

Swami Sivananda

Others offer as sacrifice the outgoing breath in the incoming, and the incoming in the outgoing, restraining the courses of the outgoing and the incoming breaths, solely absorbed in the restraint of the breath.