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Bhagavad-gita As It Is

BG Chapters 7 - 12

Nara means human being, and adhama means the lowest.
BG 7.15, Purport:

Another class of duṣkṛtī, or miscreant, is called the narādhama, or the lowest of mankind. Nara means human being, and adhama means the lowest. Out of the 8,400,000 different species of living beings, there are 400,000 human species. Out of these there are numerous lower forms of human life that are mostly uncivilized. The civilized human beings are those who have regulative principles of social, political and religious life.