Bhagavad Gita, Chapter 1, Verse 20

अथ व्यवस्थितान्दृष्ट्वा धार्तराष्ट्रान् कपिध्वजः । प्रवृत्ते शस्त्रसम्पाते धनुरुद्यम्य पाण्डवः

atha vyavasthitāndṛṣṭvā dhārtarāṣṭrān kapidhvajaḥ | pravṛtte śastrasampāte dhanurudyamya pāṇḍavaḥ

Translation

Then seeing the people of Dhṛtarāṣṭra's party regularly marshalled, while the discharge of weapons began, Arjuna, the son of Pāṇḍu, whose ensign was a monkey, O King of earth, took up his bow and said thus to Kṛṣṇa: "O Achyuta (Immortal), place my chariot between the two armies, that I may just see those who stand here desirous to fight, and know with whom I must fight in this strife of battle.

— Alladi Mahadeva Sastri

Word meanings

atha

now

vyavasthitān

standing (in order)

dṛṣṭvā

having seen

dhārtarāṣṭrān

the sons of Dhṛtarāṣṭra

kapidhvajaḥ

an ape, in flag, whose, he

pravṛtte

(in the state of) having begun

śastrasampāte

of weapons, in the falling

dhanuḥ

bow

udyamya

having taken up

pāṇḍavaḥ

the son of Pāṇḍu