Bhagavad Gita/bg.14.13

Verse 14.13

bg.14.13

Sanskrit

अप्रकाशोऽप्रवृत्तिश्च प्रमादो मोह एव च।तमस्येतानि जायन्ते विवृद्धे कुरुनन्दन।।14.13।।

Sanskrit (gita/gita data/verse.json)

Transliteration

aprakāśho ’pravṛittiśh cha pramādo moha eva cha tamasy etāni jāyante vivṛiddhe kuru-nandana

Transliteration (gita/gita data/verse.json)

English

Darkness, inertia, carelessness, and delusion—these arise when Tamas is predominant, O Arjuna.

English — Swami Sivananda (praneshp1org/Bhagavad-Gita-JSON-data translation.json)

Hindi

।।14.13।।हे कुरुनन्दन ! तमोगुणके बढ़नेपर अप्रकाश, अप्रवृत्ति, प्रमाद और मोह -- ये वृत्तियाँ भी पैदा होती हैं।

Hindi — Swami Ramsukhdas (praneshp1org/Bhagavad-Gita-JSON-data translation.json)

Modern English

aprakāśhaḥ—nescience; apravṛittiḥ—inertia; cha—and; pramādaḥ—negligence; mohaḥ—delusion; eva—indeed; cha—also; tamasi—mode of ignorance; etāni—these; jāyante—manifest; vivṛiddhe—when dominates; kuru-nandana—the joy of the Kurus, Arjun

Word meanings (gita/gita data/verse.json)

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