🪷 Bhagavad-Gītā · 1.35

Chapter 1 · अर्जुनविषादयोग · Arjuna-Viṣāda-Yoga · "The Yoga of Arjuna's Despondency" · Verse 35 of 47

एतान्न हन्तुमिच्छामि घ्नतोऽपि मधुसूदन।

अपि त्रैलोक्यराज्यस्य हेतोः किं नु महीकृते।।1.35।।
— Bhagavad-Gītā 1.35 · Devanāgarī root text

🪷 English Translations

5 received English translations are available for this śloka. Each voice is labelled; no single rendering is presented as the Sanskrit itself.

Shri Purohit Swami · Poetic English · 1935 edition attribution in the received data
1.35 I would not kill them, even for three worlds; why then for this poor earth? It matters not if I myself am killed.
Swami Sivananda · Direct prose · Divine Life Society
1.35. These I do not wish to kill, though they kill me, O Krishna, even for the sake of dominion over the three worlds; leave alone killing them for the sake of the earth.
Swami Gambīrānanda · Word-key glosses · Advaita Ashrama · Śaṅkara-school
1.35 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
1.35. By slaying Dhrtarastra's sons what joy would be to go us, O Janardana?

🪷 Hindi Translation · हिन्दी अनुवाद

Received Hindi rendering attributed in the source data to Swami Rāmsukhdās ji.

🪷 Swami Rāmsukhdās · Hindi rendering · source-data attribution
।।1.34 -- 1.35।। (टिप्पणी प0 24.1) आचार्य, पिता, पुत्र और उसी प्रकार पितामह, मामा, ससुर, पौत्र, साले तथा अन्य जितने भी सम्बन्धी हैं, मुझपर प्रहार करने पर भी मैं इनको मारना नहीं चाहता, और हे मधुसूदन! मुझे त्रिलोकी का राज्य मिलता हो, तो भी मैं इनको मारना नहीं चाहता, फिर पृथ्वीके लिये तो (मैं इनको मारूँ ही) क्या?

🪷 English Commentaries · The Ācārya Voices

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Swami Sivananda · Verse-by-verse word-keys with Sanskrit anchors
1.35 एतान् these? न not? हन्तुम् to kill? इच्छामि (I) wish? घ्नतःअपि even if they kill me? मधुसूदन O Madhusudana (the slayer of Madhu? a demon)? अपि even? त्रैलोक्यराज्यस्य dominion over the three worlds? हेतोः for the sake of? किम् how? नु then? महीकृते for the sake of the earth.No Commentary.
Swami Gambīrānanda · Advaita-school commentary (Śaṅkara tradition)
1.35 Sri Sankaracharya did not comment on this sloka. The commentary starts from 2.10.
Swami Ādidevānanda · Rāmānuja Śrī-Vaiṣṇava commentary
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 · Modern academic scholarship
1.35 – 1.44 Nihatya etc. upto anususruma. Sin alone is the agent in the act of slaying these desperadoes. Therefore here the idea is this : These ememies of ours have been slain, i.e., have been take possession of, by sin. Sin would come to us also after slaying them. Sin in this context is the disregard, on account of greed etc., to the injurious conseences like the ruination of the family and the like. That is why Arjuna makes a specific mention of the [ruin of the] family etc., and of its duties in the passage 'How by slaying my own kinsmen etc'. The act of slaying, undertaken with an individualizing idea about its result, and with a particularizing idea about the person to be slain, is a great sin. To say this very thing precisely and to indicate the intensity of his own agony, Arjuna says only to himself [see next sloka]:
Swami Chinmayānanda · Chinmaya Mission · modern Vedantic teaching
।।1.35।। यह विचार कर कि संभवत उसने अपने पक्ष को श्रीकृष्ण के समक्ष अच्छी प्रकार दृढ़ता से प्रस्तुत नहीं किया है जिससे कि भगवान् उसके मत की पुष्टि करें अर्जुन व्यर्थ में त्याग की बातें करता है। वह यह दर्शाना चाहता है कि वह इतना उदार हृदय है कि उसके चचेरे भाई उसको मार भी डालें तो भी वह उन्हें मारने को तैयार नहीं होगा। अतिशयोक्ति की चरम सीमा पर वह तब पहुँचता है जब वह घोषणा करता है कि त्रैलोक्य का राज्य मिलता हो तब भी वह युद्ध नहीं करेगा फिर केवल हस्तिनापुर के राज्य की बात ही क्या है।

🪷 Hindi Vyākhyā · हिन्दी व्याख्या

Received Hindi vyākhyā attributed in the source data to Swami Rāmsukhdās ji.

🪷 Swami Rāmsukhdās · Hindi vyākhyā · source-data attribution
।।1.35।। व्याख्या--[भगवान् आगे सोलहवें अध्यायके इक्कीसवें श्लोकमें कहेंगे कि काम, क्रोध और लोभ--ये तीनों ही नरकके द्वार हैं। वास्तवमें एक कामके ही ये तीन रूप हैं। ये तीनों सांसारिक वस्तुओं, व्यक्तियों आदिको महत्त्व देनेसे पैदा होते हैं। काम अर्थात् कामनाकी दो तरहकी क्रियाएँ होती हैं--इष्टकी प्राप्ति और अनिष्टकी निवृत्ति। इनमेंसे इष्टकी प्राप्ति भी दो तरहकी होती है--संग्रह करना और सुख भोगना। संग्रहकी इच्छाका नाम 'लोभ' है और सुखभोगकी इच्छाका नाम 'काम' है। अनिष्टकी निवृत्तिमें बाधा पड़नेपर 'क्रोध' आता है अर्थात् भोगोंकी, संग्रहकी प्राप्तिमें बाधा देनेवालोंपर अथवा हमारा अनिष्ट करनेवालोंपर, हमारे शरीरका नाश करनेवालोंपर क्रोध आता है जिससे अनिष्ट करनेवालोंका नाश करनेकी क्रिया होती है। इससे सिद्ध हुआ कि युद्धमें मनुष्यकी दो तरहसे ही प्रवृत्ति होती है --अनिष्टकी निवृत्तिके लिये अर्थात् अपने 'क्रोध' को सफल बनानेके लिये और इष्टकी प्राप्तिके लिये अर्थात् 'लोभ' की पूर्तिके लिये। परन्तु अर्जुन यहाँ इन दोनों ही बातोंका निषेध कर रहे हैं] 'आचार्याः पितरः৷৷. किं नु महीकृते'----अगर हमारे ये कुटुम्बीजन अपनी अनिष्ट-निवृत्तिके लिये क्रोधमें आकर मेरेपर प्रहार करके मेरा वध भी करना चाहें, तो भी मैं अपनी अनिष्ट-निवृत्तिके लिये क्रोधमें आकर इनको मारना नहीं चाहता। अगर ये अपनी इष्टप्राप्तिके लिये राज्यके लोभमें आकर मेरेको मारना चाहें, तो भी मैं अपनी इष्टप्राप्तिके लिये लोभमें आकर इनको मारना नहीं चाहता। तात्पर्य यह हुआ कि क्रोध और लोभमें आकर मेरेको नरकोंका दरवाजा मोल नहीं लेना है। यहाँ दो बार अपि पदका प्रयोग करनेमें अर्जुनका आशय यह है कि मैं इनके स्वार्थमें बाधा ही नहीं देता तो ये मुझे मारेंगे ही क्यों? पर मान लो कि पहले इसने हमारे स्वार्थमें बाधा दी' है ऐसे विचारसे ये मेरे शरीरका नाश करनेमें प्रवृत्त हो जायँ तो भी (घ्नतोऽपि) मैं इनको मारना नहीं चाहता। दूसरी बात इनको मारनेसे मुझे

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