Verse 1.47

एवमुक्त्वार्जुनः सङ्ख्ये रथोपस्थ उपाविशत् ।

विसृज्य सशरं चापं शोकसंविग्नमानसः ॥

1.47

Transliteration

evamuktvārjunaḥ saṅkhye rathopastha upāviśat |

visṛjya saśaraṃ cāpaṃ śokasaṃvignamānasaḥ ||

By Sanskrit System · Machine draft · @indic-transliteration/sanscript 1.3.3

Translation

Sanjaya said Having thus spoken in the midst of the battlefield, Arjuna, casting away his bow and arrow, sat down on the seat of the chariot with his mind overwhelmed with sorrow.

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Word by word

thus
having spoken
Arjuna
on the battlefield
on the chariot seat
sat down

casting aside
with arrows
bow
mind agitated by grief

By Sanskrit System · Machine draft · claude-opus-5-5 · 2026-11-08

Explanation

Sanjaya closes the chapter with an image. Arjuna, having finished speaking, lets go of his bow and arrows and sits down in the chariot, his mind shaken by sorrow. The bow he raised so confidently earlier in the chapter now lies at his side. Krishna has said almost nothing yet. The chapter ends in silence and collapse, and the rest of the Gita is the response to this moment. It is often called the yoga of Arjuna's despondency, because even this despair becomes the ground from which the teaching grows.