# Bhagavad Gita 2.8

**Canonical reference:** `gita.2.8`  
**Speaker:** Arjuna  
**Corpus version:** gita-1.0.0-rc.1

## Sanskrit (Devanagari)

न हि प्रपश्यामि ममापनुद्याद्
यच्छोकमुच्छोषणमिन्द्रियाणाम्।
अवाप्य भूमावसपत्नमृद्धं
राज्यं सुराणामपि चाधिपत्यम् ॥

## IAST

na hi prapaśyāmi mamāpanudyād yacchokamucchoṣaṇamindriyāṇām
avāpya bhūmāvasapatnamṛddhaṃ rājyaṃ surāṇāmapi cādhipatyam

## English — Kashinath Trimbak Telang, 1882

who have thrown myself on your (indulgence). For I do not perceive what is to dispel that grief which will dry up my organs after I shall have obtained a prosperous kingdom on earth without a foe or even the sovereignty of the gods.

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