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Bhagavad Gita 1.26

तत्रापश्यत्स्थितान्पार्थः पितृ़नथ पितामहान्।आचार्यान्मातुलान्भ्रातृ़न्पुत्रान्पौत्रान्सखींस्तथा॥

tatrāpaśyatsthitānpārthaḥ pitṛnatha pitāmahān |ācāryānmātulānbhrātṛnputrānpautrānsakhīṃstathā ||

Then, Arjuna (son of Pritha) saw there (in the armies) stationed fathers, grandfathers, teachers, maternal uncles, brothers, sons, grandsons, and friends.

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

There, Arjuna noticed fathers, grandfathers, uncles, cousins, sons, grandsons, teachers, and friends.

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.