एतां दृष्टिमवष्टभ्य नष्टात्मानोऽल्पबुद्धयः | प्रभवन्त्युग्रकर्माणः क्षयाय जगतोऽहिताः ||१६-९||
etāṃ dṛṣṭimavaṣṭabhya naṣṭātmāno.alpabuddhayaḥ . prabhavantyugrakarmāṇaḥ kṣayāya jagato.ahitāḥ ||16-9||
- etām
- this
- dṛṣṭim
- vision
- avaṣṭabhya
- accepting
- naṣṭa
- having lost
- ātmānaḥ
- themselves
- alpa-buddhayaḥ
- the less intelligent
- prabhavanti
- flourish
- ugra-karmāṇaḥ
- engaged in painful activities
- kṣayāya
- for destruction
- jagataḥ
- of the world
- ahitāḥ
- unbeneficial
Following such conclusions, the demoniac, who are lost to themselves and who have no intelligence, engage in unbeneficial, horrible works meant to destroy the world.