निहत्य धार्तराष्ट्रान्न: का प्रीति: स्याज्जनार्दन पापमेवाश्रयेदस्मान्हत्वैतानाततायिन: तस्मान्नार्हा वयं हन्तुं धार्तराष्ट्रान्स्वबान्धवान् स्वजनं हि कथं हत्वा सुखिन: स्याम माधव
nihatya dhārtarāṣhṭrān naḥ kā prītiḥ syāj janārdana pāpam evāśhrayed asmān hatvaitān ātatāyinaḥ tasmān nārhā vayaṁ hantuṁ dhārtarāṣhṭrān sa-bāndhavān sva-janaṁ hi kathaṁ hatvā sukhinaḥ syāma mādhava
Recitation · Text 1.36
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Word-for-Word Śabda-Artha (28 words)
Purport Overview & Key Insights
Arjuna asks what pleasure could possibly come from killing Dhṛitarāṣhṭra's sons — only sin, he says, would attach itself to killing men who, however wrongly, are still kin.
✨ Devotional Takeaway:Arjuna separates the question of who is at fault from the question of what killing them would cost his own soul.