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Bhagavad Gītā 17.10

BG 17.10

यातयामं गतरसं पूति पर्युषितं च यत्।उच्छिष्टमपि चामेध्यं भोजनं तामसप्रियम्

yāta-yāmaṁ gata-rasaṁ pūti paryuṣhitaṁ cha yat uchchhiṣhṭam api chāmedhyaṁ bhojanaṁ tāmasa-priyam

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

Translated by Shri Purohit Swami

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

Translated by Swami Sivananda

Word meanings (from the gita/gita dataset)

yāta-yāmam—stale foods; gata-rasam—tasteless; pūti—putrid; paryuṣhitam—polluted; cha—and; yat—which; uchchhiṣhṭam—left over; api—also; cha—and; amedhyam—impure; bhojanam—foods; tāmasa—to persons in the mode of ignorance; priyam—dear

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Cite as: Bhagavad Gītā 17.10, in HREEM (hreem.cc/library/BG/17.10), after https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/gh/gita/gita@main (gita/gita on GitHub, Unlicense).

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