Chapter 1, Verse 32
न काङ्क्षे विजयं कृष्ण न च राज्यं सुखानि च। किं नो राज्येन गोविन्द किं भोगैर्जीवितेन वा।।1.32।।
na kāṅkṣe vijayaṃ kṛṣṇa na ca rājyaṃ sukhāni ca। kiṃ no rājyena govinda kiṃ bhogairjīvitena vā।।1.32।।
Word by word
- न
- not
- काङ्क्षे
- I desire
- विजयम्
- victory
- कृष्ण
- O Krishna
- न
- nor
- च
- and
- राज्यम्
- kingdom
- सुखानि
- pleasures/happiness
- च
- and
- किम्
- what (use)
- नः
- to us
- राज्येन
- with kingdom
- गोविन्द
- O Govinda
- किम्
- what (use)
- भोगैः
- with enjoyments
- जीवितेन
- with life
- वा
- or
Commentary
I do not wish for victory, O Krishna! nor sovereignty, nor pleasures: what is sovereignty to us, O Govinda! what enjoyments, and even life? Even those, for whose sake we desire sovereignty, enjoyments, and pleasures, are standing here for battle, abandoning life and wealth-preceptors, fathers, sons as well as grandfathers, maternal uncles, fathers-in-law, grandsons, brothers-in-law, as also (other) relatives. These I do not wish to kill, though they kill (me), O destroyer of Madhu! even for the sake of sovereignty over the three worlds, how much less then for this earth (alone)?
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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