Thursday, 7 August 2014

Chapter 1, verse 40

Chapter 1, verse 40, Bhagvad Gita. 
adharmabhibhavat krsna
pradusyanti kula-striyah
strisu dustasu varsneya
jayate varna-sankarah

Here, the roots ‘praduSta’ and ‘duSta’ could be translated as ‘polluted,’ ‘defiled’ or ‘corrupted,’ signifying an important slippage of meanings.


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