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Bhagavad Gita 2.33

अथ चैत्त्वमिमं धर्म्यं संग्रामं न करिष्यसि।ततः स्वधर्मं कीर्तिं च हित्वा पापमवाप्स्यसि॥

atha caittvamimaṃ dharmyaṃ saṃgrāmaṃ na kariṣyasi |tataḥ svadharmaṃ kīrtiṃ ca hitvā pāpamavāpsyasi ||

But if you will not fight this righteous war, then having abandoned your own duty and reputation, you will incur sin.

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

Refuse to fight in this righteous cause, and you will be a traitor, losing fame, incurring only sin.

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 2.33 · SatsangVidya