Sanskrit · Devanagari
अवाच्यवादांश्च बहून्वदिष्यन्ति तवाहिताः। निन्दन्तस्तव सामर्थ्यं ततो दुःखतरं नु किम् ॥
Sanskrit · IAST
avācyavādāṃśca bahūnvadiṣyanti tavāhitāḥ nindantastava sāmarthyaṃ tato duḥkhataraṃ nu kim
English witness
Kashinath Trimbak Telang, 1882you will fall down to littleness. Your enemies, too, decrying your power, will speak much about you that should not be spoken. And what, indeed, more lamentable than that?
This verse-level alignment is machine-assisted and awaits two independent human checks. Confidence signal: 44%.
Compare readings
29 translations and commentaries are aligned to this verse. Choose up to three; the root verse and Telang witness stay above them.
Śaṅkarācārya
।।2.36।। अवाच्यवादान् अवक्तव्यवादां श्च बहून् अनेकप्रकारान् वदिष्यन्ति तव अहिताः शत्रवः निन्दन्तः कुत्सयन्तः तव त्वदीयं सामर्थ्यं निवातकवचादियुद्धनिमित्तम्। ततः तस्मात् निन्दाप्राप्तेर्दुःखात् दुःखतरं नु किम् ततः कष्टतरं दुःखं नास्तीत्यर्थः।।युद्धे पुनः क्रियमाणे कर्णादिभिः
c3d4e5fb37ac…Rāmānuja
2.36 Moreover, your enemies, the sons of Dhrtarastra, will make many remarks unutterably slanderous and disparaging to heroes, saying, 'How can this Partha stand in the presence of us, who are heroes, even for a moment? His prowess is elsewhere than in our presence.' Can there be anything more painful to you than this? You yourself will understand that death is preferable to subjection to disparagement of this kind. Sri Krsna now says that for a hero, enemies being slain by oneself and oneself being slain by enemies are both conducive to supreme bliss.
2f7303fb98d3…Swami Sivananda
2.36 अवाच्यवादान् words that are improper to be spoken? च and? बहून् many? वदिष्यन्ति will say? तव thy? अहिताः enemies? निन्दन्तः cavilling? तव thy? सामर्थ्यम् power? ततः than this? दुःखतरम् more painful? नु indeed? किम् what.Commentary There is really no pain more unbearable and tormenting that that of slander thus incurred.
d2350fc15388…These supplied texts come from the pinned VedicScriptures dataset under GPL-3.0 and await independent alignment review.