Chapter 1, Verse 26
तत्रापश्यत्स्थितान्पार्थः पितृ़नथ पितामहान्। आचार्यान्मातुलान्भ्रातृ़न्पुत्रान्पौत्रान्सखींस्तथा।।1.26।।
tatrāpaśyatsthitānpārthaḥ pitṝnatha pitāmahān৷ ācāryānmātulānbhrātṝnputrānpautrānsakhīṃstathā৷৷1.26৷৷
Word by word
- tatra
- there
- apaśyat
- he saw
- sthitān
- standing/arrayed
- pārthaḥ
- Arjuna (son of Pritha)
- pitṝn
- fathers (paternal elders)
- atha
- also/then
- pitāmahān
- grandfathers
- ācāryān
- teachers
- mātulān
- maternal uncles
- bhrātṝn
- brothers
- putrān
- sons
- pautrān
- grandsons
- sakhīn
- friends
- tathā
- as well as
Commentary
There the son of Pritha saw in both armies, fathers and grandfathers, preceptors, maternal uncles, brothers, sons, grandsons, companions, fathers-in-law, as well as friends. And seeing all those kinsmen standing (there), the son of Kunti was overcome by excessive pity, and spake thus despondingly. Arjuna said:
Source: Alladi Mahadeva Sastri, The Bhagavad-Gita with the Commentary of Sri Shankaracharya (1897), public domain -- Shankara's commentary offers no independent gloss for this narrative verse; text is the literal translation.
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