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Bhagavad Gita 1.47

सञ्जय उवाच · sañjaya uvāca

एवमुक्त्वाऽर्जुनः संख्ये रथोपस्थ उपाविशत्।विसृज्य सशरं चापं शोकसंविग्नमानसः॥

evamuktvā'rjunaḥ saṃkhye rathopastha upāviśat |visṛjya saśaraṃ cāpaṃ śokasaṃvignamānasaḥ ||

Sanjaya said, Having thus spoken in the midst of the battlefield, Arjuna cast away his bow and arrow and, his mind overwhelmed with sorrow, sat down on the seat of the chariot.

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

Sanjaya said: "Having spoken thus, Arjuna sank into the seat of his chariot, discarding his bow and arrow, overwhelmed with grief in the midst of the 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.