Duty & Righteousness

Bhagavad Gita 1.30

गाण्डीवं स्रंसते हस्तात्त्वक्चैव परिदह्यते | न च शक्नोम्यवस्थातुं भ्रमतीव च मे मनः ||१-३०||

gāṇḍīvaṃ sraṃsate hastāttvakcaiva paridahyate . na ca śaknomyavasthātuṃ bhramatīva ca me manaḥ ||1-30||

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

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Swami SivanandaEnglish

1.30. The (bow) Gandiva slips from my hand, and also my skins burns all over; I am unable even to stand and my mind is reeling, as it were.

A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami PrabhupadaEnglish

I am now unable to stand here any longer. I am forgetting myself, and my mind is reeling. I see only causes of misfortune, O Kṛṣṇa, killer of the Keśī demon.