# Bhagavad Gita 2.1

**Canonical reference:** `gita.2.1`  
**Speaker:** Sanjaya  
**Corpus version:** gita-1.0.0-rc.1

## Sanskrit (Devanagari)

सञ्जय उवाच।
तं तथा कृपयाविष्टमश्रुपूर्णाकुलेक्षणम्।
विषीदन्तमिदं वाक्यमुवाच मधुसूदनः ॥

## IAST

sañjaya uvāca
taṃ tathā kṛpayāviṣṭamaśrupūrṇākulekṣaṇam
viṣīdantamidaṃ vākyamuvāca madhusūdanaḥ

## English — Kashinath Trimbak Telang, 1882

To him, who was thus overcome with pity, and dejected, and whose eyes were full of tears and turbid, the destroyer of Madhu spoke these words. How (comes it that) this delusion O Arjuna ! which is discarded by the good

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