तत्रापश्यत्स्थितान्पार्थः पितॄनथ पितामहान् ।आचार्यान्मातुलान्भ्रातॄन् पुत्रान्पौत्रान्सखींस्तथा ॥
tatrāpaśyatsthitānpārthaḥ pitṝnatha pitāmahānācāryānmātulānbhrātṝn putrānpautrānsakhīṁstathā
Then saw Partha standing upon opposite sides, uncles and grandsires, teachers, mother’s brothers, cousins, sons and grandsons, comrades, fathers-in-law, benefactors.
Compiled rendering · Anilbaran Roy
AI translation
His translation
Thus, O Bharata, to Hrishikésha Gudakésha said, who set in the midst between either army the noble car, in front of Bheeshma and Drona and all those kings of earth. “Lo, O Partha,” He said, “all these Kurus met in one field.” There Partha saw fathers and grandsires stand and teachers & uncles & brothers & sons and grandsons and dear comrades and fathers of wives and hearts’ friends, all in either battle opposed. There when the son of Coonty beheld all these dear friends & kindred facing each other in fight, his heart was besieged with utter pity and failed him and he said:
Essays on the Gita
It is typical again of the pragmatic man that it is through his sensations that he awakens to the meaning of his action. He has asked his friend and charioteer to place him between the two armies, not with any profounder idea, but with the proud intention of viewing and looking in the face these myriads of the champions of unrighteousness whom he has to meet and conquer and slay1·22 “in this holiday of fight” so that the right may prevail. It is as he gazes that the revelation of the meaning of a civil and domestic war comes home to him, a war in which not only men of the same race, the same nation, the same clan, but those of the same family and household stand upon opposite sides. All whom the social man holds most dear and sacred, he must meet as enemies and slay,1·26–31 —the worshipped teacher and preceptor, the old friend, comrade and companion in arms, grandsires, uncles, those who stood in the relation to him of father, of son, of grandson, connections by blood and connections by marriage,—all these social ties have to be cut asunder by the sword. It is not that he did not know these things before, but he has never realised it all; obsessed by his claims and wrongs and by the principles of his life, the struggle for the right, the duty of the Kshatriya to protect justice and the law and fight and beat down injustice and lawless violence, he has neither thought it out deeply nor felt it in his heart and at the core of his life. And now it is shown to his vision by the divine charioteer, placed sensationally before his eyes, and comes home to him like a blow delivered at the very centre of his sensational, vital and emotional being.
Writings in Bengali
tatrāpaśyat sthitān pārthaḥ pitṝnatha pitāmahān
ācāryān mātulān bhrātṝn putrān pautrān sakhīṁstathā
śvaśurān suhṛdaścaiva senayorubhayorapi (26)Then Partha saw standing there fathers and grandfathers, teachers, maternal uncles, brothers, sons, grandsons and comrades, fathers-in-law and friends in both the armies.
তত্রাপশ্যৎ স্থিতান্ পার্থঃ পিতৃনথ পিতামহান্।
আচার্য্যান্ মাতুলান্ ভ্রাতৃন্ পুত্রান্ পৌত্রান্ সখীংস্তথা।
শ্বশুরান্ সুহৃদশ্চৈব সেনয়োরুভয়োরপি॥২৬॥
বাল্যের সহচরগণ সেই কুরুজাতীয়, তাহা হইলে শ্রীকৃষ্ণের মুখে এই তিনটী সামান্য কথার গভীর অর্থ ও ভাব হৃদয়ঙ্গম হয়। তখন অর্জ্জুন দেখিলেন যাঁহাদের সংহার করিয়া যুধিষ্ঠিরের অসপত্ন রাজ্য স্থাপন করিতে হইবে, তাঁহারা আর কেহ নন, নিজ প্রিয় আত্মীয়, গুরু, বন্ধু, ভক্তি ও ভালবাসার পাত্র। দেখিলেন সমস্ত ভারতের ক্ষত্রিয়বংশ পরস্পরের সহিত প্রিয় সম্বন্ধ দ্বারা আবদ্ধ অথচ পরস্পরকে সংহার করিতে এই ভীষণ রণক্ষেত্রে আগত।
