Chapter 2, Verse 6
Text
न चैतद्विद्मः कतरन्नो गरीयो यद्वा जयेम यदि वा नो जयेयुः | यानेव हत्वा न जिजीविषामस्- तेऽवस्थिताः प्रमुखे धार्तराष्ट्राः ||२-६||
Transliteration
na caitadvidmaḥ kataranno garīyo yadvā jayema yadi vā no jayeyuḥ . yāneva hatvā na jijīviṣāmaḥ te.avasthitāḥ pramukhe dhārtarāṣṭrāḥ ||2-6||
Translations
In English by Swami Sivananda
2.6 I can hardly tell which will be better, that we should coner them or that they should coner us. Even the sons of Dhritarashtra, after slaying whom we do not wish to live, stand facing us.
In English by Swami Sivananda
2.6 न not, च and, एतत् this, विद्मः (we) know, कतरत् which, नः for us, गरीयः better, यत् that, वा or, जयेम we should coner, यदि if, वा or, नः us, जयेयुः they should coner, यान् whom, एव even, हत्वा having slain, न not, जिजीविषामः we wish to live, ते those, अवस्थिताः (are) standing, प्रमुखे in face, धार्तराष्ट्राः sons of Dhritarashtra.No commentary.