Verse 1.26
तत्रापश्यत्स्थितान्पार्थः पितॄनथ पितामहान् ।
आचार्यान्मातुलान्भ्रातॄन्पुत्रान्पौत्रान्सखींस्तथा ॥
Transliteration
tatrāpaśyatsthitānpārthaḥ pitṝnatha pitāmahān |
ācāryānmātulānbhrātṝnputrānpautrānsakhīṃstathā ||
By Sanskrit System · Machine draft · @indic-transliteration/sanscript 1.3.3
Translation
Then, Arjuna (son of Pritha) saw there (in the armies) stationed, fathers and grandfathers, teachers, maternal uncles, brothers, sons, grandsons and friends too.
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There Partha saw standing fathers and grandfathers, teachers, maternal uncles, brothers, sons, grandsons and companions,
By Sanskrit System · Machine draft · claude-opus-5-5 · 2026-11-08 · +1 more
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By Sanskrit System · Machine draft · claude-opus-5-5 · 2026-11-08
Explanation
Looking as Krishna bids him, Arjuna sees not an army but a family. Sanjaya lists the relationships one after another: elders of his father's generation, grandsires, teachers, uncles on the mother's side, brothers, sons, grandsons and friends. The word fathers here includes uncles and elders of that rank. The piling up of kinship terms slows the narrative and lets the listener feel what Arjuna feels. This is the moment when the enemy acquires faces, and the warrior's clarity of a few verses earlier begins to dissolve.
By Sanskrit System · Machine draft · claude-opus-5-5 · 2026-11-08