# Bhagavad Gita 17.9

**Canonical reference:** `gita.17.9`  
**Speaker:** Krishna  
**Corpus version:** gita-1.0.0-rc.1

## Sanskrit (Devanagari)

कट्वम्ललवणात्युष्णतीक्ष्णरूक्षविदाहिनः।
आहारा राजसस्येष्टा दुःखशोकामयप्रदाः ॥

## IAST

kaṭvamlalavaṇātyuṣṇatīkṣṇarūkṣavidāhinaḥ
āhārā rājasasyeṣṭā duḥkhaśokāmayapradāḥ

## English — Kashinath Trimbak Telang, 1882

rough and. burning and which cause pain. grief and disease are desired by the passionate. And the food which is cold

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