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Bhagavad Gita 17.10

यातयामं गतरसं पूति पर्युषितं च यत्।उच्छिष्टमपि चामेध्यं भोजनं तामसप्रियम्॥

yātayāmaṃ gatarasaṃ pūti paryuṣitaṃ ca yat |ucchiṣṭamapi cāmedhyaṃ bhojanaṃ tāmasapriyam ||

That which is stale, tasteless, putrid, rotten, rejected, and impure is the food liked by the Tamasic.

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

The ignorant love food that is stale, not nourishing, putrid, and corrupt; the leftovers of others, and unclean.

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 17.10 · Vidya