Is there any difference between dambha, darpa and abhimana in Gita 16.04?

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Hare Krishna, question, is there any difference between dambha, darpa and abhima in the Bhagavad Gita 16.4, answer yes, there is a subtle but significant difference, which Baldev Daya Bhushi talks about in his commentary, dambha refers to pretence, hypocrisy, where one does not have anything, anything virtues, anything good, anything respectable, and pretends to have, especially it refers to religious pretense, that means one pretends to be a religious person or a respectable person because of one’s religious activities, while actually one has not much religious faith or commitment, so demanding respect for things that one doesn’t have, so imagining oneself to be great and portraying oneself to be great, although one doesn’t have any qualities of greatness, that is dambha, then darpa is actually believing oneself to be great based on one’s birth, one’s wealth, one’s learning, so this is actually, darpa is more of one has qualities and based on that one imagines, one gets a very inflated conception of oneself, so darpa basically refers to the situation where from material perspective, one can say one has qualities and one can say that I have reason to be proud, but one based on those qualities, one imagines oneself to be too great, so one is constantly absorbed in thoughts of oneself and that would, so what is dambha could be called in English as hypocritical, whereas darpa could be more called as egoist, a person is absorbed in oneself constantly, and then abhimana specifically refers to the constant seeking of honour from others, now in one sense all three involve seeking of honour, but abhimana means one is very prestige conscious and that is the infatuation of a person, so one is seeking respect, seeking glorification, wants to talk about oneself and wants others to talk about oneself, and in a positive tone, laudatory, glorificatory tone, so that rule in English we could call it more of the egotist, so the difference between egoist and egotist is, egotist is one who talks about oneself constantly and wants others to talk about oneself, all in a glorificatory tone, so in that sense pretending to be great, believing oneself to be great, and advertising oneself as great, through one’s speech and through other’s speech, that is dambha, darpa and abhimana, but essentially the common denominator is that one is obsessed with one’s greatness, and one is blind to the greatness of others, and one is especially blind to the greatness of Krishna, and that’s why this is, these three are the characteristics of the ungodly people. Thank you.