Bhagavad Gita
    Chapter 16 · The Divine and Demoniac Natures

    Verse 19

    Sanskrit Text — Chapter 16, Verse 19

    तानहं द्विषतः क्रूरान्संसारेषु नराधमान्।क्षिपाम्यजस्रमशुभानासुरीष्वेव योनिषु।।16.19।।

    Transliteration (IAST)

    tān ahaṁ dviṣhataḥ krūrān sansāreṣhu narādhamān kṣhipāmy ajasram aśhubhān āsurīṣhv eva yoniṣhu

    Translation

    Those who are hateful, cruel, the vilest and most inauspicious of mankind, I hurl forever into the cycles of births and deaths, into the wombs of demons.
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