Bhagavad Gita, Chapter 1, Verse 37
तस्मान्नार्हा वयं हन्तुं धार्तराष्ट्रान्स्वबान्धवान् । स्वजनं हि कथं हत्वा सुखिनः स्याम माधव
tasmānnārhā vayaṃ hantuṃ dhārtarāṣṭrānsvabāndhavān | svajanaṃ hi kathaṃ hatvā sukhinaḥ syāma mādhava
Translation
We had then better not slay our own kinsmen, the sons of Dhṛtarāṣṭra; for, how can we be happy, O Mādhava, after slaying our own people?
— Alladi Mahadeva Sastri
Word meanings
- tasmāt
- therefore
- na
- (are) not
- arhāḥ
- deserving (ought)
- vayam
- we
- hantum
- to kill
- dhārtarāṣṭrān
- sons of Dhṛtarāṣṭra
- svabāndhavān
- own, relatives
- svajanam
- kinsfolk
- hi
- indeed
- katham
- how
- hatvā
- having killed
- sukhinaḥ
- happy
- syāma
- may (we) be
- mādhava
- O Mādhava