Shankaracharya's commentary, trans. Alladi Mahadeva Sastry (1897)
[1]MISSING — SH Ch.16 V8 not indexed; Ganguli and Telang used as primary.
BG 16.8
असत्यम् अप्रतिष्ठं ते जगद् आहुर् अनीश्वरम् । अपरस्परसम्भूतं किम् अन्यत् कामहैतुकम् ॥
asatyam apratiṣṭhaṃ te jagad āhur anīśvaram | aparaspara-sambhūtaṃ kim anyat kāma-haitukam ||
"The āsurī worldview: the world is unreal, groundless, Godless — produced only by matter-union and desire."
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Swami Swarupananda, Srimad Bhagavad Gita (1909)
[4]They say, 'The universe is without truth, without a moral basis, without a God, brought about by mutual union, with lust for its cause; what else?'
K.T. Telang, Sacred Books of the East Vol. 8 (1882)
[9]They say the universe is void of truth, without any support, without any God, brought about by mutual union, motivated by desire — what other cause is there?
K.M. Ganguli, The Mahabharata, Bhishma Parva (1883–96)
[13]They say that the universe is void of truth, of guiding principle, produced by the union of one another from lust, and nothing else.