# Bhagavad Gita 16.7

**Canonical reference:** `gita.16.7`  
**Speaker:** Krishna  
**Corpus version:** gita-1.0.0-rc.1

## Sanskrit (Devanagari)

प्रवृत्तिं च निवृत्तिं च जना न विदुरासुराः।
न शौचं नापि चाचारो न सत्यं तेषु विद्यते ॥

## IAST

pravṛttiṃ ca nivṛttiṃ ca janā na vidurāsurāḥ
na śaucaṃ nāpi cācāro na satyaṃ teṣu vidyate

## English — Kashinath Trimbak Telang, 1882

Demoniac persons know not action or inaction, neither purity nor yet (correct) conduct nor veracity are in them.

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