Duty & Righteousness

Bhagavad Gita 1.23

योत्स्यमानानवेक्षेऽहं य एतेऽत्र समागताः | धार्तराष्ट्रस्य दुर्बुद्धेर्युद्धे प्रियचिकीर्षवः ||१-२३||

yotsyamānānavekṣe.ahaṃ ya ete.atra samāgatāḥ . dhārtarāṣṭrasya durbuddheryuddhe priyacikīrṣavaḥ ||1-23||

Cover artwork for Bhagavad Gita chapter 1 — Chapter 1 — Arjuna's despair: the armies arrayed at Kurukshetra.

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Swami SivanandaEnglish

1.23. For I desire to observe those who are assembled here to fight, wishing to please in battle the evil-minded Duryodhana (the son of Dhritarashtra).

A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami PrabhupadaEnglish

Let me see those who have come here to fight, wishing to please the evil-minded son of Dhṛtarāṣṭra.