Sanskrit · Devanagari
अधर्मं धर्ममिति या मन्यते तमसावृता। सर्वार्थान्विपरीतांश्च बुद्धिः सा पार्थ तामसी ॥
Sanskrit · IAST
adharmaṃ dharmamiti yā manyate tamasāvṛtā sarvārthānviparītāṃśca buddhiḥ sā pārtha tāmasī
English witness
Kashinath Trimbak Telang, 1882understands impiety (to be) piety and all things incorrectly. That courage O son of Pṛthā! is good courage which is unswerving and by which one controls the operations of the mind breath
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Śaṅkarācārya
।।18.32।। --,अधर्मं प्रतिषिद्धं धर्मं विहितम् इति या मन्यते जानाति तमसा आवृता सती? सर्वार्थान् सर्वानेव ज्ञेयपदार्थान् विपरीतांश्च विपरीतानेव विजानाति? बुद्धिः सा पार्थ? तामसी।।
3ba9fc863144…Rāmānuja
18.32 That Buddhi is of the nature of Tamas which is 'enveloped in Tamas' and 'reverses every value.' The meaning is that it regards Adharma as Dharma and Dharma as Adharma, existent as non-existent, and non-existent as existent, and higher truth as the lower and the lower truth as the higher, and thus reverses every value.
5a26f9d4d6e8…Swami Sivananda
18.32 अधर्मम् Adharma? धर्मम् Dharma? इति thus? या which? मन्यते thinks? तमसा by darkness? आवृता enveloped? सर्वार्थान् all things? विपरीतान् perverted? च and? बुद्धिः intellect? सा that? पार्थ O Partha? तामसी Tamasic (dark).Commentary That intellect which regards righteous acts as evil? and considers right things to be false? which treats everything in a contrary sense and looks upon virtues as if they were vices and takes everything that the scriptures declare to be good as being entirely wrong? is Tamasic. It views all things in a perverted light.Thus? O Arjuna? I have explained to thee the three aspects of the intellect. Now listen to the explanation of the characteristics of the three aspects of firmness.
f89b3666c365…These supplied texts come from the pinned VedicScriptures dataset under GPL-3.0 and await independent alignment review.