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arjuna uvāca senayor ubhayor madhye rathaḿ sthāpaya me ‘cyuta yāvad etān nirīkṣe ‘haḿ yoddhu-kāmān avasthitān kair mayā saha yoddhavyam asmin raṇa-samudyame Translation of Bhagavad Gita 1.21   Arjuna said: O...

yotsyamānān avekṣe ‘haḿ ya ete ‘tra samāgatāḥ dhārtarāṣṭrasya durbuddher yuddhe priya-cikīrṣavaḥ Translation of Bhagavad Gita 1.23 Let me see those who have come here to fight, wishing to please the...

sañjaya uvāca evam ukto hṛṣīkeśo guḍākeśena bhārata senayor ubhayor madhye sthāpayitvā rathottamam Translation of Bhagavad Gita 1.24 Sanjaya said: O descendant of Bharata, having thus been addressed by Arjuna, Lord Krishna...

bhisma-drona-pramukhatah sarvesam ca mahi-ksitam uvaca partha pasyaitan samavetan kurun iti Translation of Bhagavad Gita 1.25 In the presence of Bhishma, Drona and all the other chieftains of the world, the Lord said, Just...

tatrāpaśyat sthitān pārthaḥ pitṝn atha pitāmahān ācāryān mātulān bhrātṝn putrān pautrān sakhīḿs tathā śvaśurān suhṛdaś caiva senayor ubhayor api Translation of Bhagavad Gita 1.26 There Arjuna could see, within the midst...

tān samīkṣya sa kaunteyaḥ sarvān bandhūn avasthitān kṛpayā parayāviṣṭo viṣīdann idam abravīt Translation of Bhagavad Gita 1.27 When the son of Kunti, Arjuna, saw all these different grades of friends and relatives, he...

arjuna uvāca dṛṣṭvemaḿ sva-janaḿ kṛṣṇa yuyutsuḿ samupasthitam sīdanti mama gātrāṇi mukhaḿ ca pariśuṣyati Translation of Bhagavad Gita 1.28 Arjuna said: My dear Krishna, seeing my friends and relatives present before...

vepathuś ca śarīre me roma-harṣaś ca jāyate gāṇḍīvaḿ sraḿsate hastāt tvak caiva paridahyate Translation of Bhagavad Gita 1.29 My whole body is trembling, my hair is standing on end, my bow Gandiva is slipping from my hand,...

na ca śaknomy avasthātuḿ bhramatīva ca me manaḥ nimittāni ca paśyāmi viparītāni keśava Translation of Bhagavad Gita 1.30 I am now unable to stand here any longer. I am forgetting myself, and my mind is reeling. I see only...

na ca śreyo ‘nupaśyāmi hatvā sva-janam āhave na kāńkṣe vijayaḿ kṛṣṇa na ca rājyaḿ sukhāni ca Translation of Bhagavad Gita 1.31 I do not see how any good can come from killing my own kinsmen in this battle, nor can I,...