Asuric people do not know, do not understand, engagement, the setting-to-work in the duty to be done, the means of the human goal; nor turning-away, its opposite, the turning-back from the cause of harm. And not only do they not know engagement and turning-away: in them there is neither cleanness nor good conduct nor truth, for the asuras are unclean, ill-conducted, given to māyā, and speakers of untruth. Further.

The demons do not know, do not understand, engagement and withdrawal, the Vedic duty that is the means of prosperity and the means of liberation. Nor is purity, the scriptural fitness for Vedic action, found in the demons, the outer and the inner. Nor is conduct found in them, conduct being the practice, the twilight-worship and the rest, by which that outer and inner purity arises; that conduct too is not found in them. So it is said, 'one without the twilight-worship is ever impure, unfit for all rites'. And truth is not found in them; truth, which is the right knowledge, the speech for the welfare of beings, is not found in them. Moreover.

This is a brief sub-gloss. For a fuller reading of this verse, see Madhusūdana, Śaṅkara, or Rāmānuja above.

Madhvacharya does not comment on this verse.