Chapter 17 · Verse 9·Spoken by Krishna
कट्वम्ललवणात्युष्णतीक्ष्णरूक्षविदाहिनः।आहारा राजसस्येष्टा दुःखशोकामयप्रदाः
kaṭv-amla-lavaṇāty-uṣhṇa- tīkṣhṇa-rūkṣha-vidāhinaḥ āhārā rājasasyeṣhṭā duḥkha-śhokāmaya-pradāḥ
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Sanskrit recitation by Swami Brahmānanda
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Translation · 5 voices
Foods that are bitter, sour, salty, very hot, pungent, dry, and burning, producing pain, sorrow, and disease, are dear to one who has rajas.
Swami Gambiranandaafter Śaṅkara's bhāṣya· paired with Śaṅkara
Foods that are bitter, sour, very salty, excessively heating, highly pungent, dry, and burning are all dear to Rajasika men; they cause pain, sorrow, and disease.
Swami Adidevanandaafter Rāmānuja's bhāṣya· paired with Rāmānuja
The foods killed by men of the Rajas strand are those that are bitter, sour, salty, very hot, harsh, dry, and burning; and which cause pain, grief, and disease.
Dr. S. Sankaranarayanafter Madhva's bhāṣya· paired with Madhva
The foods that are bitter, sour, salty, overly hot, pungent, dry, and burning are liked by the Rajasic and are productive of pain, grief, and disease.
Swami SivanandaThe Bhagavad Gita
Those in whom passion is dominant like foods that are bitter, sour, salty, overly hot, pungent, dry, and burning. These produce unhappiness, repentance, and disease.
Shri Purohit SwamiThe Geeta
This is a brief sub-gloss. For a fuller reading of this verse, see Madhusūdana, Śaṅkara, or Rāmānuja above.
Foods that are bitter, sour, salty, very hot, sharp, harsh, and burning, and excessively so, for the word 'too' is to be carried over to each, are the foods dear to a person of rajas. They bring pain, grief, and sickness.
Contemporary English rendering of the Sanskrit bhāṣya, pending scholar review.
Bitter, sour, very salty, very hot, very sharp, harsh, and burning: sharp through being ill to use by reason of excessive cold, excessive sharpness, and the rest; harsh, the drying; burning, the heating; foods of such a kind are wished by the rajasic man. And they, by being made of rajas, and by being the cause of pain, grief, and sickness, are the increasers of pain, grief, and sickness, and the increasers of rajas.
Contemporary English rendering of the Sanskrit bhāṣya, pending scholar review.
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.
Contemporary English rendering of the Sanskrit bhāṣya, pending scholar review.