Speaker: Sañjaya
तान्समीक्ष्य स कौन्तेयः सर्वान्बन्धूनवस्थितान् ।
कृपया परयाविष्टो विषीदन्निदमब्रवीत् ॥२७॥
tān samīkṣya sa kaunteyaḥ
sarvān bandhūn avasthitān
kṛpayā parayāviṣṭo
viṣīdann idam abravīt
Word for word (synonyms)
- tān
- all of them
- samīkṣya
- after seeing
- saḥ
- he
- kaunteyaḥ
- the son of Kuntī
- sarvān
- all kinds of
- bandhūn
- relatives
- avasthitān
- situated
- kṛpayā
- by compassion
- parayā
- of a high grade
- āviṣṭaḥ
- overwhelmed by
- viṣīdan
- while lamenting
- idam
- thus
- abravīt
- spoke
Translation
When the son of Kuntī, Arjuna, saw all these different grades of friends and relatives, he became overwhelmed with compassion and spoke thus:
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.