# Bhagavad Gita 14.17

**Canonical reference:** `gita.14.17`  
**Speaker:** Krishna  
**Corpus version:** gita-1.0.0-rc.1

## Sanskrit (Devanagari)

सत्त्वात्सञ्जायते ज्ञानं रजसो लोभ एव च।
प्रमादमोहौ तमसो भवतोऽज्ञानमेव च ॥

## IAST

sattvātsañjāyate jñānaṃ rajaso lobha eva ca
pramādamohau tamaso bhavato.ajñānameva ca

## English — Kashinath Trimbak Telang, 1882

while the fruit of passion is misery and the fruit of darkness ignorance. From goodness is produced knowledge, from passion avarice, and from darkness heedlessness and delusion and ignorance also.

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