BG 18.31

यया धर्मं अधर्मं च कार्यं चाकार्यम् एव च । अयथावत् प्रजानाति बुद्धिः सा पार्थ राजसी ॥

yayā dharmaṃ adharmaṃ ca kāryaṃ cākāryam eva ca | ayathāvat prajānāti buddhiḥ sā pārtha rājasī ||

"Rājasic buddhi: imperfectly/wrongly discerns dharma-adharma and kārya-akārya — not as they really are."

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

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

[1]
That by which one wrongly understands dharma and adharma, and also what ought to be done and what ought not to be done, that intellect, O Partha, is Rajasic.

Swami Swarupananda, Srimad Bhagavad Gita (1909)

[4]
That which has a distorted apprehension of Dharma and its opposite and also of right action and its opposite, that intellect, O Partha, is Rajasika.

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

[9]
MISSING from index.

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

[13]
The intellect which imperfectly discerns right and wrong, that which ought to be done and that which ought not to be done, is of the quality of passion.