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GITĀ-RAHASYA OR KARMA-YOGA
दोषैरेतै : कुलम्नानां वर्णसंकरकारकै । उत्सायन्ते जातिधर्मा : कुलधर्माश्च शाश्वताः॥४३॥ उत्सन्नकुलधर्माणां मनुष्याणां जनार्दन ।
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यद्राज्यसुखलोभेन हन्तुं स्वजनमुद्यताः॥ ४५ ॥ यदि मामप्रतीकारमशस्त्रं शस्त्रपाणयः। धार्तराष्ट्रा रणे हन्युस्तन्मे क्षेमतरं भवेत् ॥ ४६॥
__ संजय उवाच। एवमुक्त्वार्जुनः संख्ये रथोपस्थ उपाविशत् ।
विसृज्य सशरं चापं शोकसंविग्नमानसः॥४७॥ it (necessarily) leads the destroyer of the family and the (entire) family to hell ; and as a result of the cessation of the ritual of offering rice-balls and water, their ancestors also fall down (to hell-Trans.). (43) By these sins of the destroyers of families, which result in caste-confusion, the eternal casterites and family-rites are abolished; (44) and O Janardana ! we have heard that persons whose family rites are abolished, must necessarily undergo residence in hell.
(45) Alas ! we are engaged in committing a heinous sin in that we have uprisen to kill our own kinsmen out of greed of the pleasures of sovereignty. (46) If, rather than this, (these) Kauravas, bearing arms slay me in the battle, I having become unarmed and having given up retaliation in return, that would be happier for me. Sañjaya said : (47) Having spoken thus on the battle-field, Arjuna, whose mind was agitated by grief, casting aside the bow and arrows (in his hands), sat down (quiet) on his seat in the chariot.
[As it was customary to fight standing in the chariot, the words "sat down on his seat in the chariot" more clearly " bring out the idea that he had no desire to fight, as a result of his dejection. It would appear from the descriptions of
