Speaker: Sañjaya
सञ्जय उवाच ।
एवमुक्त्वार्जुनः सङ्ख्ये रथोपस्थ उपाविशत् ।
विसृज्य सशरं चापं शोकसंविग्नमानसः ॥४६॥
sañjaya uvāca
evam uktvārjunaḥ saṅkhye
rathopastha upāviśat
visṛjya sa-śaraṁ cāpaṁ
śoka-saṁvigna-mānasaḥ
Word for word (synonyms)
- sañjayaḥ
- Sañjaya
- uvāca
- said
- evam
- thus
- uktvā
- saying
- arjunaḥ
- Arjuna
- saṅkhye
- in the battlefield
- ratha
- chariot
- upasthaḥ
- situated on
- upāviśat
- sat down again
- visṛjya
- keeping aside
- sa-śaram
- along with arrows
- cāpam
- the bow
- śoka
- lamentation
- saṁvigna
- distressed
- mānasaḥ
- within the mind
Translation
Sañjaya said: Arjuna, having thus spoken on the battlefield, cast aside his bow and arrows and sat down on the chariot, his mind overwhelmed with grief.
Purport
While observing the situation of his enemy, Arjuna stood up on the chariot, but he was so afflicted with lamentation that he sat down again, setting aside his bow and arrows. Such a kind and softhearted person, in the devotional service of the Lord, is fit to receive self-knowledge.
Thus end the Bhaktivedanta Purports to the First Chapter of the Śrīmad-Bhagavad-gītā in the matter of Observing the Armies on the Battlefield of Kurukṣetra.
What this verse teaches
Arjuna, being griefsriken, decides not to fight.
- Gita for Life
- Grief
Śrīla Prabhupāda lectures 1
- Bhagavad-gītā 1.45–46 1973-08-01
Bhagavad-gītā As It Is by His Divine Grace A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupāda © The Bhaktivedanta Book Trust International.