The works of Ādi Śaṅkarācārya

Sanatsujātīyam

p. 231

p. 231

अधर्मविदुषो मूढा लोकशास्त्रविवर्जिताः ।

In plain words

Learned men — learned in unrighteousness: fools, cut loose from the ways of the world and from scripture alike.

Close to the Sanskrit

Knowers of unrighteousness, deluded, devoid of the world and of scripture.