# Bhagavad Gita 1.35

**Canonical reference:** `gita.1.35`  
**Speaker:** Arjuna  
**Corpus version:** gita-1.0.0-rc.1

## Sanskrit (Devanagari)

एतान्न हन्तुमिच्छामि घ्नतोऽपि मधुसूदन।
अपि त्रैलोक्यराज्यस्य हेतोः किं नु महीकृते ॥

## IAST

etānna hantumicchāmi ghnato.api madhusūdana
api trailokyarājyasya hetoḥ kiṃ nu mahīkṛte

## English — Kashinath Trimbak Telang, 1882

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)?

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