त्याज्यं दोषवदित्येके कर्म प्राहुर्मनीषिणः | यज्ञदानतपःकर्म न त्याज्यमिति चापरे ||१८-३||
tyājyaṃ doṣavadityeke karma prāhurmanīṣiṇaḥ . yajñadānatapaḥkarma na tyājyamiti cāpare ||18-3||
- tyājyam
- must be given up
- doṣa-vat
- as an evil
- iti
- thus
- eke
- one group
- karma
- work
- prāhuḥ
- they say
- manīṣiṇaḥ
- great thinkers
- yajña
- of sacrifice
- dāna
- charity
- tapaḥ
- and penance
- karma
- works
- na
- never
- tyājyam
- are to be given up
- iti
- thus
- ca
- and
- apare
- others
Some learned men declare that all kinds of fruitive activities should be given up as faulty, yet other sages maintain that acts of sacrifice, charity and penance should never be abandoned.