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Shri Sankara's Gita Bhashya
(Sri Sankaracharya's Commentary on the Gita)
CHAPTER -1
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36. After slaying the sons of Dhrtarāstra, what pleasure can be ours, O Janārdana?[1] Sin alone will hold us fast, after killing these felons[2] (usurpers though they be).
37. Therefore, it will not befit us to kill our own kinsmen, the sons of Dhrtarāstra; for, surely, after killing our own kinsfolk, how can we be happy, O Mādhava?
38-39. liven if these (sons of Dhrtarāstra), with their minds warped by avarice, do not see the evil resulting from extinction of families[3] and the sin in treachery to friends, why indeed should we—who perceive clearly the evil in the extinction of families—not hink of recoiling from this crime, O Janārdana? |
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References and Context
- ↑ (I) He who kills wicked persons, (2) or causes them lo go to hell and the like places, (3) Slayer of Paficajana—see note 35 anle, (4) He to whom the faithful beg for the grant of the ends of life—prosperity and liberation (vide Introduction) (V.S. 126 Com.; also X-18 Com.)
- ↑ The following six classes of felons arc mentioned in the Śukra-nlti : (i) Incendiary, (ii) Poisoner, (Hi) Man frantically using weapon with intent to murder, (iv) Plunderer Of wealth, (v) Dispossessor of land and (vi) Abductor of woman. (Agnido garadaicaiva SaStronmattO dhanāpahān kselra-dāra-haraścailān sad-ndyād-ātatāyinah). Duryodhana and his group were guilty of all the six kinds of felony.
- ↑ Kula, family, signifies an expansive group of descendants of one progenitor.