Verset 1.46

यदि मामप्रतीकारमशस्त्रं शस्त्रपाणयः ।

धार्तराष्ट्रा रणे हन्युस्तन्मे क्षेमतरं भवेत् ॥

1.46

Translittération

yadi māmapratīkāramaśastraṃ śastrapāṇayaḥ |

dhārtarāṣṭrā raṇe hanyustanme kṣemataraṃ bhavet ||

Par Sanskrit System · Brouillon automatique · @indic-transliteration/sanscript 1.3.3

Traduction

If the sons of Dhritarashtra with weapons in hand should slay me in battle, unresisting and unarmed, that would be better for me.

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Mot à mot

if
me
unresisting
unarmed
weapons in hand

the sons of Dhritarashtra
in battle
should kill
that
for me
better
would be

Par Sanskrit System · Brouillon automatique · claude-opus-5-5 · 2026-11-08

Explication

Arjuna reaches the end of his reasoning. He would rather be killed, unarmed and offering no resistance, than fight. This is the strongest possible statement of his refusal: not only will he not kill, he would accept death himself. For a warrior, such words are startling. They show that his crisis is not cowardice in the ordinary sense, since he is ready to die. It is a collapse of purpose, a conviction that any action in this war is wrong, and it sets the problem that Krishna's teaching must address.