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Teachers, fathers, sons and also grandfathers, maternal uncles, fathers-in-law, grandsons, brothers-in-law and other relatives,-

Teachers, fathers, sons and grandfathers as well, maternal uncles, fathers-in-law, grandsons, brothers-in-law and other kinsmen.

Arjuna names again the relations he sees before him: teachers, elders, sons, grandsires, uncles, fathers-in-law, grandsons, brothers-in-law and other kin. Earlier in the chapter Sanjaya listed them; now Arjuna lists them himself, in his own voice. The repetition is not accidental. Grief often returns to the same details, and the list conveys how completely the war has become, for him, a matter of family. Every category of human bond appears, which is why no political justification seems strong enough to him.