BG 17.1

ये शास्त्रविधिम् उत्सृज्य यजन्ते श्रद्धयान्विताः । तेषां निष्ठा तु का कृष्ण सत्त्वम् आहो रजस् तमः ॥

ye śāstra-vidhim utsṛjya yajante śraddhayānvitāḥ | teṣāṃ niṣṭhā tu kā kṛṣṇa sattvam āho rajas tamaḥ ||

"Arjuna asks: those who perform yajña with sincere śraddhā but without śāstric ordinance — what guṇa is their state?"

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4 translations · all pre-1928 or released to public domain · sources

Shankaracharya's commentary, trans. Alladi Mahadeva Sastry (1897)

[1]

MISSING — SH Ch.17 V1 not indexed; Ganguli and Telang used as primary.

Swami Swarupananda, Srimad Bhagavad Gita (1909)

[4]

Those who, setting aside the ordinance of the Shastra, perform sacrifice with Shraddha, what is their condition, O Krishna? Is it Sattva, Rajas, or Tamas?

K.T. Telang, Sacred Books of the East Vol. 8 (1882)

[9]

Those who perform sacrifice with faith, but abandoning the ordinances of scripture — what is their condition, O Krishna? Is it goodness, passion, or darkness?

K.M. Ganguli, The Mahabharata, Bhishma Parva (1883–96)

[13]

What is the state, O Krishna, of those who abandoning the ordinance of the scriptures, perform sacrifices endued with faith? It is one of Goodness, or Passion, or Darkness?