🪷 Bhagavad-Gītā · 1.26

Chapter 1 · अर्जुनविषादयोग · Arjuna-Viṣāda-Yoga · "The Yoga of Arjuna's Despondency" · Verse 26 of 47

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🪷 English Translations

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Shri Purohit Swami · Poetic English · 1935 · public domain · Cosmo Press tradition

1.26 There Arjuna noticed fathers, grandfathers, uncles, cousins, sons, grandsons, teachers, friends;

Swami Sivananda · Direct prose · Divine Life Society

1.26. Then, Arjuna (son of Pritha) saw there (in the armies) stationed, fathers and grandfathers, teachers, maternal uncles, brothers, sons, grandsons and friends too.

Swami Gambīrānanda · Word-key glosses · Advaita Ashrama · Śaṅkara-school

1.26 Sri Sankaracharya did not comment on this sloka. The commentary starts from 2.10.

Swami Ādidevānanda · Śrī-Vaiṣṇava perspective · Rāmānuja school

1.26 - 1.47 Arjuna said - Sanjaya said Sanjaya continued: The high-minded Arjuna, extremely kind, deeply friendly, and supremely righteous, having brothers like himself, though repeatedly deceived by the treacherous attempts of your people like burning in the lac-house etc., and therefore fit to be killed by him with the help of the Supreme Person, nevertheless said, 'I will not fight.' He felt weak, overcome as he was by his love and extreme compassion for his relatives. He was also filled with fear, not knowing what was righteous and what unrighteous. His mind was tortured by grief, because of the thought of future separation from his relations. So he threw away his bow and arrow and sat on the chariot as if to fast to death.

Dr. S. Sankaranarayan · Academic precision · modern scholarly

1.26. Noticing all those kinsmen arrayed [in the army], the son of Kunti was overpowered by unmost compassion; and being despondent, he uttered this:

🪷 Hindi Translation · हिन्दी अनुवाद

For the Hindi-aware seer · Pūjya Swami Rāmsukhdās ji's translation · a high-readability modern Hindi rendering · Gītā-Press Gorakhpur tradition. (→ Full Mahāpurusha-detail page for the 102-year-living Sādhaka-Sañjīvanī Mahātmā.)

🪷 Swami Rāmsukhdās · Sādhaka-Sañjīvanī tradition · Gītā-Press Gorakhpur · highest modern Hindi reading

।।1.26।। उसके बाद पृथानन्दन अर्जुनने उन दोनों ही सेनाओंमें स्थित पिताओंको, पितामहोंको, आचार्योंको, मामाओंको, भाइयोंको, पुत्रोंको, पौत्रोंको तथा मित्रोंको, ससुरोंको और सुहृदोंको भी देखा।

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Swami Sivananda · Verse-by-verse word-keys with Sanskrit anchors

1.26 तत्र there? अपश्यत् saw? स्थितान् stationed? पार्थः Partha? पितृ़न् fathers? अथ also? पितामहान्grandfathers? आचार्यान् teachers? मातुलान् maternal uncles? भ्रातृ़न् brothers? पुत्रान् sons? पौत्रान् grandsons? सखीन् friends? तथा too.No Commentary.

Swami Gambīrānanda · Advaita-school commentary (Śaṅkara tradition)

1.26 Sri Sankaracharya did not comment on this sloka. The commentary starts from 2.10.

Swami Ādidevānanda · Rāmānuja Śrī-Vaiṣṇava commentary

Dr. S. Sankaranarayan · Modern academic scholarship

1.12 1.29 Sri Abhinavgupta did not comment upon this sloka.

Swami Chinmayānanda · Chinmaya Mission · modern Vedantic teaching

।।1.26।। No commentary.

🪷 Hindi Vyākhyā · हिन्दी व्याख्या

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🪷 Swami Rāmsukhdās · Sādhaka-Sañjīvanī · Hindi vyākhyā · the modern bilingual anchor

1.26।। व्याख्या--'तत्रापश्यत् ৷৷. सेनयोरूभयोरपि'-- जब भगवान्ने अर्जुनसे कहा कि इस रणभूमिमें इकट्ठे हुए कुरुवंशियोंको देख, तब अर्जुनकी दृष्टि दोनों सेनाओंमें स्थित अपने कुटुम्बियोंपर गयी। उन्होंने देखा कि उन सेनाओंमें युद्धके लिये अपने-अपने स्थानपर भूरिश्रवा आदि पिताके भाई खड़े हैं, जो कि मेरे लिये पिताके समान हैं। भीष्म, सोमदत्त आदि पितामह खड़े हैं। द्रोण, कृप आदि आचार्य (विद्या पढ़ानेवाले और कुलगुरु) खड़े हैं। पुरुजित, कुन्तिभोज, शल्य, शकुनि आदि मामा खड़े हैं। भीम, दुर्योधन आदि भाई खड़े हैं। अभिमन्यु, घटोत्कच, लक्ष्मण (दुर्योधनका पुत्र) आदि मेरे और मेरे भाइयोंके पुत्र खड़े हैं। लक्ष्मण आदिके पुत्र खड़े हैं जो कि मेरे पौत्र हैं। दुर्योंधनके अश्वत्थामा आदि मित्र खड़े हैं और ऐसे ही अपने पक्षके मित्र भी खड़े हैं। द्रुपद, शैब्य आदि ससुर खड़े हैं। बिना किसी हेतुके अपने-अपने पक्षका हित चाहनेवाले सात्यकि, कृतवर्मा आदि सुहृद् भी खड़े हैं।

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This is verse 26 of 47 in Chapter 1 · Arjuna-Viṣāda-Yoga (The Yoga of Arjuna's Despondency)
Chapter theme: The seeker's collapse at the threshold of dharma
Ṣaṭka grouping: TVAM-Ṣaṭka (BG 1-6 · the jīva)
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⭐ Mahābhārata anchor: this verse is also MBh 6.23.26 (Bhīṣma-Parva · the BG in its full narrative home)

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