Sanskrit · Devanagari
एतान्न हन्तुमिच्छामि घ्नतोऽपि मधुसूदन। अपि त्रैलोक्यराज्यस्य हेतोः किं नु महीकृते ॥
Sanskrit · IAST
etānna hantumicchāmi ghnato.api madhusūdana api trailokyarājyasya hetoḥ kiṃ nu mahīkṛte
English witness
Kashinath Trimbak Telang, 1882These 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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Śaṅkarācārya
1.35 Sri Sankaracharya did not comment on this sloka. The commentary starts from 2.10.
1d3a2a912eea…Rāmānuja
1.26 - 1.47 Arjuna said - Sanjaya said Sanjaya continued: The high-minded Arjuna, extremely kind, deeply friendly, and supremely righteous, having brothers like himself, though repeatedly deceived by the treacherous attempts of your people like burning in the lac-house etc., and therefore fit to be killed by him with the help of the Supreme Person, nevertheless said, 'I will not fight.' He felt weak, overcome as he was by his love and extreme compassion for his relatives. He was also filled with fear, not knowing what was righteous and what unrighteous. His mind was tortured by grief, because of the thought of future separation from his relations. So he threw away his bow and arrow and sat on the chariot as if to fast to death.
dabf40275fa9…Swami Sivananda
1.35 एतान् these? न not? हन्तुम् to kill? इच्छामि (I) wish? घ्नतःअपि even if they kill me? मधुसूदन O Madhusudana (the slayer of Madhu? a demon)? अपि even? त्रैलोक्यराज्यस्य dominion over the three worlds? हेतोः for the sake of? किम् how? नु then? महीकृते for the sake of the earth.No Commentary.
f096d3abeae8…These supplied texts come from the pinned VedicScriptures dataset under GPL-3.0 and await independent alignment review.