Chapter 17, Slok 9
🗣 Speaker: zrIbhagavAnBG 17.9
Original Verse
kaTvamlalavaNAtyuSNatIkSNarUkSavidAhinaH | AhArA rAjasasyeSTA duHkhazokAmayapradAH ||17-9||
Transliteration
kaṭvamlalavaṇātyuṣṇatīkṣṇarūkṣavidāhinaḥ . āhārā rājasasyeṣṭā duḥkhaśokāmayapradāḥ ||17-9||
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Meter:अनुष्टुभ् (पाद 1-2)
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Swami Adidevananda
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Translation
17.9 Foods that are bitter, sour, very salty, exceedingly heating, very pungent, dry and burning, are all dear to Rajasika men; they produce pain, sorrow and disease.