Sanskrit
मोघाशा मोघकर्माणो मोघज्ञाना विचेतसः । राक्षसीमासुरीं चैव प्रकृतिं मोहिनीं श्रिताः ॥
moghāśā moghakarmāṇo moghajñānā vicetasaḥ rākṣasīm āsurīṃ caiva prakṛtiṃ mohinīṃ śritāḥ
Translation
Empty of hope, empty of deeds, empty of wisdom, senseless, partaking of the deceitful, brutal and demoniacal nature.
Annie Besant · The Bhagavad-Gita, translated by Annie Besant (4th ed., 1922) — Wikisource · Public Domain
Explanation
Piles up three “empty” (mogha-) compounds — empty hope, empty deeds, empty wisdom — to describe those who mistake Krishna’s human semblance for the whole truth. The repetition is a rhetorical intensifier that the English translation can only partly preserve; the Sanskrit’s rhythmic hammering of mogha- across three successive words is part of the verse’s argument, not decoration.