यामिमां पुष्पितां वाचं प्रवदन्त्यविपश्चितः | वेदवादरताः पार्थ नान्यदस्तीति वादिनः ||२-४२||
yāmimāṃ puṣpitāṃ vācaṃ pravadantyavipaścitaḥ . vedavādaratāḥ pārtha nānyadastīti vādinaḥ ||2-42||
- yām imām
- all these
- puṣpitām
- flowery
- vācam
- words
- pravadanti
- say
- avipaścitaḥ
- men with a poor fund of knowledge
- veda-vāda-ratāḥ
- supposed followers of the Vedas
- pārtha
- O son of Pṛthā
- na
- never
- anyat
- anything else
- asti
- there is
- iti
- thus
- vādinaḥ
- the advocates
Men of small knowledge are very much attached to the flowery words of the Vedas, which recommend various fruitive activities for elevation to heavenly planets, resultant good birth, power, and so forth. Being desirous of sense gratification and opulent life, they say that there is nothing more than this.