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Bhagavad Gita 1.21

अर्जुन उवाच · arjuna uvāca

हृषीकेशं तदा वाक्यमिदमाह महीपते।सेनयोरुभयोर्मध्ये रथं स्थापय मेऽच्युत॥

hṛṣīkeśaṃ tadā vākyamidamāha mahīpate |senayorubhayormadhye rathaṃ sthāpaya me'cyuta ||

Arjuna said, "O Krishna, place my chariot in the middle between the two armies, so that I may behold those who stand here, desirous to fight, and know with whom I must fight when the battle is about to commence."

Translation by Swami Sivananda · Public domain in India (translator d. 1963)

Raising his bow, he spoke this to the Lord Shri Krishna: O Infallible Lord of the earth! Please draw up my chariot between the two armies.

Translation by Shri Purohit Swami · Public domain in India (translator d. 1941)

Our plain-language meaning of this verse is waiting for scholar review.

Edition: Common 700-verse recension. Arjuna's opening question in chapter 13, absent from that recension, is kept as 13.0.

Transliteration in IAST, generated from the Devanagari text.

Source: Sanskrit text via gita/gita (Unlicense), from the Gita Supersite, IIT Kanpur. Sanskrit text public domain.

Bhagavad Gita 1.21 · SatsangVidya