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Adhyāyas / Arjuna Viṣāda Yogaḥ / verse 31

Mūla — the verse

Gita Press numbering
निमित्तानि च पश्यामि विपरीतानि केशव। न च श्रेयोऽनुपश्यामि हत्वा स्वजनमाहवे
nimittāni cha paśhyāmi viparītāni keśhava na cha śhreyo ’nupaśhyāmi hatvā sva-janam āhave
Anuṣṭubh

Translation

Swami Gambhīrānanda · follows Śaṅkara-bhāṣya

Besides, I do not see any good to be derived from killing my own people in battle. O Krsna, I do not hanker after victory, nor even a kingdom, nor pleasures.

हिन्दी अनुवाद — Swami Tejomayānanda

हे केशव ! मैं शकुनों को भी विपरीत ही देख रहा हूँ और युद्ध में (आहवे) अपने स्वजनों को मारकर कोई कल्याण भी नहीं देखता हूँ।

Pronunciation — Vaamshii

from Vaamshii
निमित्ता नि च पश्यामि
विपरी तानि केशव
न चश् रेयोऽनु पश्यामि
हत्वा स्वजन माहवे
॥ ३१ ॥
Read each split group as one breath-unit; hyphens join pādas kept whole for the meter or a compound word. Symbols: # upadhmānīya (visarga before p/ph), % jihvāmūlīya (visarga before k/kh), ऽ avagraha (an elided a). Full method →

Word by word

padārtha
nimittāniomens
chaand
paśhyāmiI see
viparītānimisfortune
keśhavaShree Krishna, killer of the Keshi demon
nanot
chaalso
śhreyaḥgood
anupaśhyāmiI foresee
hatvāfrom killing
sva-janamkinsmen
āhavein battle

Themes

from The Thematic Companion to the Bhagavad Gītā

Meaning — Questions & Solutions

from Q&A with KnA
1.31Does Arjuna see any good at all in killing his own people?

Besides, I do not see any good to be derived from killing my own people in battle. O Krsna, I do not hanker after victory, nor even a kingdom, nor pleasures.

The verse itself, in Swami Gambhīrānanda's rendering, is the answer. For reasoned solutions to knotty verses, browse the Q&A index.