Bhagavad GitaBG

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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