कामैस्तैस्तैर्हृतज्ञानाः प्रपद्यन्तेऽन्यदेवताः | तं तं नियममास्थाय प्रकृत्या नियताः स्वया
kāmaistaistairhṛtajñānāḥ prapadyante.anyadevatāḥ . taṃ taṃ niyamamāsthāya prakṛtyā niyatāḥ svayā
那些被各種欲求奪去智慧的人,受其自身本性所驅使,遵循相應的儀軌,轉而崇拜其他神祇。
People, deprived of their wisdom by desires for various objects and guided by their own nature, resort to other deities following the relevant methods.
那些渴望財富、子嗣或(小)神通(Siddhis)等的人,其辨別力會被剝奪。他們受自身本性或前世「習氣」(Samskaras)的驅使,轉而奉獻於其他次要的神祇,如因陀羅(Indra)、密特拉(Mitra)、伐樓那(Varuna)等。他們會執行某些儀式來取悅這些較低層次的神祇。
Those who desire wealth? children? the (small) Siddhis? etc.? are deprived of discrimination. They devote themselves to other minor gods such as Indra? Mitra? Varuna? etc.? impelled or driven by their own nature or Samskaras acired in their previous births. They perform some kinds of rites to propitiate these lower deities. (Cf.IX.23)