Speaker: Sañjaya
तत्रापश्यत्स्थितान्पार्थः पितॄनथ पितामहान् ।
आचार्यान्मातुलान्भ्रातॄन्पुत्रान्पौत्रान्सखींस्तथा ।
श्वशुरान्सुहृदश्चैव सेनयोरुभयोरपि ॥२६॥
tatrāpaśyat sthitān pārthaḥ
pitṝn atha pitāmahān
ācāryān mātulān bhrātṝn
putrān pautrān sakhīṁs tathā
śvaśurān suhṛdaś caiva
senayor ubhayor api
Word for word (synonyms)
- tatra
- there
- apaśyat
- he could see
- sthitān
- standing
- pārthaḥ
- Arjuna
- pitṝn
- fathers
- atha
- also
- pitāmahān
- grandfathers
- ācāryān
- teachers
- mātulān
- maternal uncles
- bhrātṝn
- brothers
- putrān
- sons
- pautrān
- grandsons
- sakhīn
- friends
- tathā
- too
- śvaśurān
- fathers-in-law
- suhṛdaḥ
- wellwishers
- ca
- also
- eva
- certainly
- senayoḥ
- of the armies
- ubhayoḥ
- of both parties
- api
- including
Translation
There Arjuna could see, within the midst of the armies of both parties, his fathers, grandfathers, teachers, maternal uncles, brothers, sons, grandsons, friends, and also his father-in-law and well-wishers—all present there.
Purport
On the battlefield Arjuna could see all kinds of relatives. He could see persons like Bhūriśravā, who were his father's contemporaries, grandfathers Bhīṣma and Somadatta, teachers like Droṇācārya and Kṛpācārya, maternal uncles like Śalya and Śakuni, brothers like Duryodhana, sons like Lakṣmaṇa, friends like Aśvatthāmā, well-wishers like Kṛtavarmā, etc. He could see also the armies which contained many of his friends.
What this verse teaches
Seeing different kinds of relatives, Arjuna becomes overwhelmed with compassion.
- Section
- Arjuna Observes the Armies
Śrīla Prabhupāda lectures 1
- Bhagavad-gītā 1.26–27 1973-07-21
Bhagavad-gītā As It Is by His Divine Grace A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupāda © The Bhaktivedanta Book Trust International.