Verse 11.34

द्रोणं च भीष्मं च जयद्रथं च

कर्णं तथान्यानपि योधवीरान् ।

मया हतांस्त्वं जहि मा व्यथिष्ठा

युध्यस्व जेतासि रणे सपत्नान् ॥

11.34

Transliteration

droṇaṃ ca bhīṣmaṃ ca jayadrathaṃ ca

karṇaṃ tathānyānapi yodhavīrān |

mayā hatāṃstvaṃ jahi mā vyathiṣṭhā

yudhyasva jetāsi raṇe sapatnān ||

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

Translation

Drona, Bhishma, Jayadratha, Karna and other brave warriors these are already slain by Me: do thou kill; be not distressed with fear; fight and thou shalt coner thy enemies in battle.

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Word by word

Drona
and
Bhishma
and
Jayadratha
and

Karna
and
other
also
heroic warriors

by me
already slain
you
slay
do not
be distressed

fight
conqueror
you will be
in battle
the foes

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

Explanation

Krishna names the very warriors Arjuna most feared to face: Drona his teacher, Bhishma his grandsire, Jayadratha, an ally of the Kauravas, and Karna, his great rival. All of them, Krishna says, are already slain by him. Arjuna is told not to be distressed and assured of victory. The naming of Drona and Bhishma answers Arjuna's objection from the beginning of the dialogue, when he asked how he could aim arrows at those who deserve worship. The vision has shown that their fate is part of a larger order. Krishna now asks Arjuna to act within it.