# Bhagavad Gita 16.9

**Canonical reference:** `gita.16.9`  
**Speaker:** Krishna  
**Corpus version:** gita-1.0.0-rc.1

## Sanskrit (Devanagari)

एतां दृष्टिमवष्टभ्य नष्टात्मानोऽल्पबुद्धयः।
प्रभवन्त्युग्रकर्माणः क्षयाय जगतोऽहिताः ॥

## IAST

etāṃ dṛṣṭimavaṣṭabhya naṣṭātmāno.alpabuddhayaḥ
prabhavantyugrakarmāṇaḥ kṣayāya jagato.ahitāḥ

## English translation — Kashinath Trimbak Telang, 1882

Holding this view, (these) enemies of the world, of ruined selfs, of little knowledge, and of ferocious actions, are born for the destruction (of the world).

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