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Bhagavad Gita 16.19

तानहं द्विषतः क्रूरान्संसारेषु नराधमान्।क्षिपाम्यजस्रमशुभानासुरीष्वेव योनिषु॥

tānahaṃ dviṣataḥ krūrānsaṃsāreṣu narādhamān |kṣipāmyajasramaśubhānāsurīṣveva yoniṣu ||

Those cruel haters, the worst among men in the world, I hurl those evil-doers into the wombs of demons only.

Translation by Swami Sivananda · Public domain in India (translator d. 1963)

Those who thus hate Me, who are cruel, the dregs of mankind, I condemn them to a continuous, miserable, and godless rebirth.

Translation by Shri Purohit Swami · Public domain in India (translator d. 1941)

Our plain-language meaning of this verse is waiting for scholar review.

Edition: Common 700-verse recension. Arjuna's opening question in chapter 13, absent from that recension, is kept as 13.0.

Transliteration in IAST, generated from the Devanagari text.

Source: Sanskrit text via gita/gita (Unlicense), from the Gita Supersite, IIT Kanpur. Sanskrit text public domain.

Bhagavad Gita 16.19 · SatsangVidya