Bhagavad Gita: Chapter 1, Verse 32-33

न काङ्क्षे विजयं कृष्ण न च राज्यं सुखानि च। किं नो राज्येन गोविन्द किं भोगैर्जीवितेन वा।।1.32।। येषामर्थे काङ्क्षितं नो राज्यं भोगाः सुखानि च। त इमेऽवस्थिता युद्धे प्राणांस्त्यक्त्वा धनानि च।।1.33।।

na kāṅkṣhe vijayaṁ kṛiṣhṇa na cha rājyaṁ sukhāni cha kiṁ no rājyena govinda kiṁ bhogair jīvitena vā yeṣhām arthe kāṅkṣhitaṁ no rājyaṁ bhogāḥ sukhāni cha ta ime ’vasthitā yuddhe prāṇāṁs tyaktvā dhanāni cha

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Word Meanings

na—nor
kāṅkṣhe—do I desire
vijayam—victory
kṛiṣhṇa—Krishna
na—nor
cha—as well
rājyam—kingdom
sukhāni—happiness
cha—also
kim—what
naḥ—to us
rājyena—by kingdom
govinda—Krishna, he who gives pleasure to the senses, he who is fond of cows
kim—what?
bhogaiḥ—pleasures
jīvitena—life
vā—or
yeṣhām—for whose
arthe—sake
kāṅkṣhitam—coveted for
naḥ—by us
rājyam—kingdom
bhogāḥ—pleasures
sukhāni—happiness
cha—also
te—they
ime—these
avasthitāḥ—situated
yuddhe—for battle
prāṇān—lives
tyaktvā—giving up
dhanāni—wealth
cha—also
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Translation

I desire not victory, O Krishna, nor kingdom, nor pleasures. What use is dominion to us, O Krishna, or pleasures or even life? Those for whose sake we desire kingdom, enjoyments, and pleasures stand here in battle, having renounced life and wealth.

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Commentary

1.32 न not? काङ्क्षे (I) desire? विजयम् victory? कृष्ण O Krishna? न not? च and? राज्यम् kingdom? सुखानि pleasures? च and? किम् what? नः to us? राज्येन by kindom? गोविन्द O Govinda? किम् what? भोगैः by pleasures? जीवितेन life? वा or.No Commentary. 1.33 येषाम् of whose? अर्थे sake? काङ्क्षितम् (is) desired? नः by us? राज्यम् kingdom? भोगाः enjoyment? सुखानि pleasures? च and? ते they? इमे these? अवस्थिताः stand? युद्धे in battle? प्राणान् life? त्यक्त्वा having abandoned? धनानि wealth? च and.No Commentary.

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