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Բիդաբարի քանդակ  () — Բիդաբարի քանդակ։
[Ch. 16]
them, one interpretation of the scriptures is as good as another, for they do not believe in a standard understanding of the scriptural injunctions.
تاریخ استانها
एतां दृष्टिमवष्टभ्य नष्टात्मानोऽल्पबुद्धयः । प्रभवन्त्युग्रकर्माणः क्षयाय जगतोऽहिताः ॥ ९ ॥
etāṁ dṛṣṭim avaṣṭabhya naṣṭātmāno ’lpa-buddhayaḥ prabhavanty ugra-karmāṇaḥ kṣayāya jagato ’hitāḥ
etām —thus;  dṛṣṭim —vision;  avaṣṭabhya —accepting;  naṣṭa —lost;  ātmānaḥ —self;  alpa-buddhayaḥ —less intelligent;  prabhavanti —flourish;  ugra-karmāṇaḥ —in painful activities;  kṣayāya —for destruction;  jagataḥ —of the world;  ahitāḥ —unbeneficial.
TRANSLATION
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.
PURPORT
The demoniac are engaged in activities that will lead the world to destruction. The Lord states here that they are less intelligent. The materialists, who have no concept of God, think that they are advancing. But, according to  Bhagavad-gītā , they are unintelligent and devoid of all sense. They try to enjoy this material world to the utmost limit and therefore always engage in inventing something for sense gratification. Such materialistic inventions are considered to be advancement of human civilization, but the result is that people grow more and more violent and more and more cruel, cruel to animals and cruel to other human beings. They have no idea how to behave toward one another. Animal killing is very prominent amongst demoniac people. Such people are considered the enemies of the world because ultimately they will invent or create something which will bring destruction to all. Indirectly, this verse anticipates