# Bhagavad Gita 16.21

**Canonical reference:** `gita.16.21`  
**Speaker:** Krishna  
**Corpus version:** gita-1.0.0-rc.1

## Sanskrit (Devanagari)

त्रिविधं नरकस्येदं द्वारं नाशनमात्मनः।
कामः क्रोधस्तथा लोभस्तस्मादेतत्त्रयं त्यजेत् ॥

## IAST

trividhaṃ narakasyedaṃ dvāraṃ nāśanamātmanaḥ
kāmaḥ krodhastathā lobhastasmādetattrayaṃ tyajet

## English — Kashinath Trimbak Telang, 1882

Threefold is this way, to hell,-ruinous to the self,—lust, anger, and likewise avarice therefore one should abandon this triad.

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