🪷 Bhagavad-Gītā · 2.36

Chapter 2 · सांख्ययोग · Sāṅkhya-Yoga · "The Yoga of Knowledge" · Verse 36 of 72

अवाच्यवादांश्च बहून् वदिष्यन्ति तवाहिताः।

निन्दन्तस्तव सामर्थ्यं ततो दुःखतरं नु किम्।।2.36।।
— Bhagavad-Gītā 2.36 · 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
2.36 Thine enemies will spread scandal and mock at thy courage. Can anything be more humiliating?
Swami Sivananda · Direct prose · Divine Life Society
2.36 Thy enemies also, cavilling at thy power, will speak many abusive words. What is more painful than this?
Swami Gambīrānanda · Word-key glosses · Advaita Ashrama · Śaṅkara-school
2.36 Ca, and besieds; tava, your; ahitah, enemies; vadisyanti, will speak; bahun, many, various kinds of; avacya-vadan, indecent words, unutterable words; nindantah, while denigrating, scorning; tava, your; samarthyam, might earned from battles against Nivatakavaca and others. Therefore, kim nu, what can be; duhkhataram, more painful; tatah, than that, than the sorrow arising from being scorned? That is to say, there is no greater pain than it.
Swami Ādidevānanda · Śrī-Vaiṣṇava perspective · Rāmānuja school
2.36 Moreover, your enemies, the sons of Dhrtarastra, will make many remarks unutterably slanderous and disparaging to heroes, saying, 'How can this Partha stand in the presence of us, who are heroes, even for a moment? His prowess is elsewhere than in our presence.' Can there be anything more painful to you than this? You yourself will understand that death is preferable to subjection to disparagement of this kind. Sri Krsna now says that for a hero, enemies being slain by oneself and oneself being slain by enemies are both conducive to supreme bliss.
Dr. S. Sankaranarayan · Academic precision · modern scholarly
2.36. Slandering your ability, the enemies will talk of you many sayings that should not be talked of. Is there anything more painful than that ?

🪷 Hindi Translation · हिन्दी अनुवाद

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

🪷 Swami Rāmsukhdās · Hindi rendering · source-data attribution
।।2.36।। तेरे शत्रुलोग तेरी सार्मथ्यकी निन्दा करते हुए न कहनेयोग्य बहुत-से वचन भी कहेंगे। उससे बढ़कर और दुःखकी बात क्या होगी?

🪷 English Commentaries · The Ācārya Voices

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Swami Sivananda · Verse-by-verse word-keys with Sanskrit anchors
2.36 अवाच्यवादान् words that are improper to be spoken? च and? बहून् many? वदिष्यन्ति will say? तव thy? अहिताः enemies? निन्दन्तः cavilling? तव thy? सामर्थ्यम् power? ततः than this? दुःखतरम् more painful? नु indeed? किम् what.Commentary There is really no pain more unbearable and tormenting that that of slander thus incurred.
Swami Gambīrānanda · Advaita-school commentary (Śaṅkara tradition)
2.36 Ca, and besieds; tava, your; ahitah, enemies; vadisyanti, will speak; bahun, many, various kinds of; avacya-vadan, indecent words, unutterable words; nindantah, while denigrating, scorning; tava, your; samarthyam, might earned from battles against Nivatakavaca and others. Therefore, kim nu, what can be; duhkhataram, more painful; tatah, than that, than the sorrow arising from being scorned? That is to say, there is no greater pain than it.
Swami Ādidevānanda · Rāmānuja Śrī-Vaiṣṇava commentary
2.36 Moreover, your enemies, the sons of Dhrtarastra, will make many remarks unutterably slanderous and disparaging to heroes, saying, 'How can this Partha stand in the presence of us, who are heroes, even for a moment? His prowess is elsewhere than in our presence.' Can there be anything more painful to you than this? You yourself will understand that death is preferable to subjection to disparagement of this kind. Sri Krsna now says that for a hero, enemies being slain by oneself and oneself being slain by enemies are both conducive to supreme bliss.
Dr. S. Sankaranarayan · Modern academic scholarship
2.36 See Comment under 2.37
Swami Chinmayānanda · Chinmaya Mission · modern Vedantic teaching
।।2.36।। यह देखकर कि अर्जुन के मन में इन तर्कों का अनुकूल प्रभाव पड़ रहा है श्रीकृष्ण उसको युद्ध से पलायन करने में जो दोष हैं उन्हें और अधिक स्पष्ट करके दिखाते हैं। लोकनिन्दा युद्ध से पलायन का आरोप इतिहास में अपकीर्ति इनसे बढ़कर एक सम्मानित व्यक्ति के लिये और अधिक दुख क्या हो सकता है

🪷 Hindi Vyākhyā · हिन्दी व्याख्या

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

🪷 Swami Rāmsukhdās · Hindi vyākhyā · source-data attribution
2.36।। व्याख्या -- अवाच्यवादांश्च ৷৷. निन्दन्तस्तव सामर्थ्यम् अहित नाम शत्रुका है, अहित करनेवालेका है। तेरे जो दुर्योधन, दुःशासन, कर्ण आदि शत्रु हैं, तेरे वैर न रखनेपर भी वे स्वयं तेरे साथ वैर रखकर तेरा अहित करनेवाले हैं। वे तेरी सामर्थ्यको जानते हैं कि यह बड़ा भारी शूरवीर है। ऐसा जानते हुए भी वे तेरी सामर्थ्यकी निन्दा करेंगे कि यह तो हिजड़ा है। देखो! यह युद्धके मौकेपर हो गया न अलग! क्या यह हमारे सामने टिक सकता है? क्या यह हमारे साथ युद्ध कर सकता है? इस प्रकार तुझे दुःखी करनेके लिये तेरे भीतर जलन पैदा करनेके लिये न जाने कितने न कहनेलायक वचन कहेंगे। उनके वचनोंको तू कैसे सहेगा?

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