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By killing these sons of Dhritarashtra, what pleasure can be ours, O Janardana? Only sin will accrue to us from killing these felons.

What joy could there be for us in killing the sons of Dhritarashtra, Janardana? Only sin would come to us from slaying these aggressors.

Arjuna adds a moral argument. Killing his cousins would bring no joy, and even though they are ātatāyin, aggressors who by traditional law may be killed in self-defence, slaying them would bring sin. The term covers those who commit grave crimes such as setting fire to a house or poisoning, and the Kauravas had done such things to the Pandavas. Arjuna knows the law permits this killing, yet he feels it would still be wrong. The verse shows a conflict between legal permission and his own sense of right.