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Bhagavad Gita 2.32

यदृच्छया चोपपन्नं स्वर्गद्वारमपावृतम्।सुखिनः क्षत्रियाः पार्थ लभन्ते युद्धमीदृशम्॥

yadṛcchayā copapannaṃ svargadvāramapāvṛtam |sukhinaḥ kṣatriyāḥ pārtha labhante yuddhamīdṛśam ||

Happy are the Kshatriyas, O Arjuna! who are called to fight in such a battle that comes of its own accord as an open door to heaven.

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

Blessed are the soldiers who find their opportunity; this opportunity has opened for thee the gates of heaven.

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 2.32 · SatsangVidya