Bhagavad Gita: Chapter 2, Verse 6

न चैतद्विद्मः कतरन्नो गरीयो यद्वा जयेम यदि वा नो जयेयुः। यानेव हत्वा न जिजीविषाम स्तेऽवस्थिताः प्रमुखे धार्तराष्ट्राः।।2.6।।

na chaitadvidmaḥ kataranno garīyo yadvā jayema yadi vā no jayeyuḥ yāneva hatvā na jijīviṣhāmas te ’vasthitāḥ pramukhe dhārtarāṣhṭrāḥ

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Word Meanings

na—not

cha—and

etat—this

vidmaḥ—we know

katarat—which

naḥ—for us

garīyaḥ—is preferable

yat vā—whether

jayema—we may conquer

yadi—if

vā—or

naḥ—us

jayeyuḥ—they may conquer

yān—whom

eva—certainly

hatvā—after killing

na—not

jijīviṣhāmaḥ—we desire to live

te—they

avasthitāḥ—are standing

pramukhe—before us

dhārtarāṣhṭrāḥ—the sons of Dhritarashtra

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Translation

I can hardly tell which would be better, that we should conquer them or that they should conquer us. Even the sons of Dhritarashtra, whom we do not wish to slay, stand facing us.

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Commentary

2.6 न not? च and? एतत् this? विद्मः (we) know? कतरत् which? नः for us? गरीयः better? यत् that? वा or? जयेम we should coner? यदि if? वा or? नः us? जयेयुः they should coner? यान् whom? एव even? हत्वा having slain? न not? जिजीविषामः we wish to live? ते those? अवस्थिताः (are) standing? प्रमुखे in face? धार्तराष्ट्राः sons of Dhritarashtra.No commentary.

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