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Chapter 1
yotsyamananavekse'ham ya ete'tra samagatah
dhartarastrasya durbuddheryuddhe priyacikirsavah
I desire to watch the evil-minded Duryodhana's well-wisher rulers, who have assembled here with their armies and are ready to fight.23
Comment:-
Dhartaragtrasya[1]durbuddheryuddhe priyaciktrkavah— Here Arjuna, by calling Duryodhana evil-minded, wants to convey how Duryodhana conspired for their destruction several times and tried his best to humiliate them. Arjuna says, "We are the lawful owners of half the empire but he wants to usurp it. He is evil-minded and these kings have assembled here to try to do good to him. But the duty of a friend, is to give him such advice as may add to his welfare now and hereafter. But, these kings instead of removing his evil-mindedness, want to enhance it and are really degrading him, by instigating him to wage war. They are not thinking of his welfare here and hereafter. As friends, they should have advised him to rule over, half of the kingdom and handover the other half, to us, the Pandavas. Thus, he would have ruled over half of the empire, and his life in the next world would also have been protecte
Yotsyamananavekse'ham ya ete'tra samagatah":- I want to observe the warriors, who are so impatient to wage war. They have favoured unrighteousness and injustice; so they are sure to be ruined in the war, against us.
Yotsyamanhn"":-it means that Arjuna wants to see those, who have a keen desire to .
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