Verse 16.10
काममाश्रित्य दुष्पूरं दम्भमानमदान्विताः ।
मोहाद्गृहीत्वासद्ग्राहान्प्रवर्तन्तेऽशुचिव्रताः ॥
Transliteration
kāmamāśritya duṣpūraṃ dambhamānamadānvitāḥ |
mohādgṛhītvāsadgrāhānpravartante'śucivratāḥ ||
By Sanskrit System · Machine draft · @indic-transliteration/sanscript 1.3.3
Translation
Filled with insatiable desires, full of hypocrisy, pride and arrogance, holding evil ideas through delusion, they work with impure resolves.
From the owner's sheet · +1 more
Clinging to desire that can never be filled, full of hypocrisy, pride and intoxication, seizing false notions out of delusion, they act with impure resolves.
By Sanskrit System · Machine draft · claude-opus-5-5 · 2026-11-08 · +1 more
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By Sanskrit System · Machine draft · claude-opus-5-5 · 2026-11-08
Explanation
The portrait continues with the inner life of such a person. They rely on desire that can never be satisfied, and they are full of hypocrisy, pride and a kind of intoxication with themselves. Out of delusion they seize on false ideas and act from impure vows or resolves. The verse shows desire as a bottomless pit: the more it is fed, the more it demands. The earlier teaching that desire is the great enemy of understanding is here seen in its fullest form.
By Sanskrit System · Machine draft · claude-opus-5-5 · 2026-11-08