# Bhagavad Gita 1.38

**Canonical reference:** `gita.1.38`  
**Speaker:** Arjuna  
**Corpus version:** gita-1.0.0-rc.1

## Sanskrit (Devanagari)

यद्यप्येते न पश्यन्ति लोभोपहतचेतसः।
कुलक्षयकृतं दोषं मित्रद्रोहे च पातकम् ॥

## IAST

yadyapyete na paśyanti lobhopahatacetasaḥ
kulakṣayakṛtaṃ doṣaṃ mitradrohe ca pātakam

## English — Kashinath Trimbak Telang, 1882

Although having their consciences corrupted by avarice they do not see the evils flowing from the extinction of a family and the sin in treachery to friends still

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