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Chapter 2<\/a><\/p>\n << Chapter 2 verse 30<\/a><\/p>\n svadharmam api chAvEkshya na vikampithum arhasi |<\/em> api cha – further, Further, even if you look at your dharmam (duty of fighting), you should not evade from doing your duty; For a king, is there something else present that is better than fighting for righteousness?<\/p>\n \u2018Also, the considerations of what is one\u2019s own duty<\/em> do not warrant your grief, for nothing is more meritorious for<\/em> a Kshatriya<\/em> than a virtuous war.\u2019<\/span><\/p>\n This impending war, moreover, involving as it does much sacrifice of life, falls, like the Agnishomiyam<\/em>, within the sphere of one\u2019s own legitimate duties. On merely such considerations even you can have no cause for regret. Quite lawfully and righteously, has the war ensued, than which therefore no work more meritorious for a Kshatriya exists. This is what will be found stated further on viz:-<\/span><\/p>\n \u2018The Kshatriya\u2019s<\/em> duty consists in intrepidity, invincibility, perseverance, capability, non-retreat in contest, liberality and lordliness.\u2019 (Bh: Gi: XVIII-43<\/a>)<\/span><\/p>\n In the Vedic sacrifices such as Agnishomiyam<\/em>[1. A Vedic Sacrifice performed in the name of Agni and Soma. The fruit to accrue to the performer is Svarga<\/em>. Agnishomiyam<\/em> is the same as Jyotishtoma<\/em>, and is described in the 4th to 8th Adhy\u0101y\u0101s<\/em>, \u015aukla Yajurveda<\/em> and the seventh Ashtaka<\/em> of Krish\u1e47a Yajurveda<\/em>, and the T\u0101ndya-br\u0101hma\u1e47a<\/em> of the S\u0101ma-veda<\/em>.], really no cruelty is inflicted on the animal that is enjoined to be sacrificed therein. For the immolation of the goat is, on the one hand, attended by the loss of its present inferior body, and on the other, the gain of an excellent body with Svarg\u0101<\/em> in addition. So says the \u015aruti:-<\/span><\/p>\n \u2018Therefore do you (addressing the goat) never die, nor are you destroyed. By an excellent road shall you reach the Devas. Let the shining (or vivifying) Deva grant you That<\/em>, where neither the virtuous nor the wicked go.\u2019[2. The mantra runs thus; – … The sacrifice is a religious Sacrament, not a cruel act of killing an animal for the sake of eating its flesh. Vide Bh\u0101gavata, XI-5: ‘Tath\u0101 pa\u015bor-\u0101labhanam na hims\u0101.’ (13); ‘pa\u015b\u016bn druhyanti visrabdh\u0101\u1e25’ (14). \u015ar\u012bdhara quotes in his commentary:- ‘Y\u0101 veda-vihit\u0101 hims\u0101 na s\u0101 himseti k\u012brtyate.’]<\/span><\/p>\n That the killed in war obtain illustrious bodies and win other rewards, has in this work itself been declared:-<\/span><\/p>\n \u2018As casting off worn out garments, man puts on other new ones\u2019 etc. (Bh: Gi: II-22<\/a>)<\/span><\/p>\n The animal sacrifice is thus a beneficent measure, similar to that of a physician applying his healing art to his patient.<\/span><\/p>\n >> Chapter 2 verse 32<\/a><\/p>\n archived in https:\/\/githa.koyil.org<\/a><\/p>\n pramEyam (goal) \u2013 http:\/\/koyil.org<\/a> SrI:\u00a0 SrImathE SatakOpAya nama:\u00a0 SrImathE rAmAnujAya nama:\u00a0 SrImath varavaramunayE nama: Chapter 2 << Chapter 2 verse 30 SlOkam \u2013 Original svadharmam api chAvEkshya na vikampithum arhasi | dharmyAdh dhi yudhdhAch chrEyo\u2019nyath kshathriyasya na vidhyathE || word-by-word meaning api cha – further, svadharmam avEkshya – even if you look at your dharmam (duty of fighting) vikampithum … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1176","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chapter-2","category-simple"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/githa.koyil.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1176","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/githa.koyil.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/githa.koyil.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/githa.koyil.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/githa.koyil.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1176"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/githa.koyil.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1176\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/githa.koyil.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1176"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/githa.koyil.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1176"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/githa.koyil.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1176"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}SlOkam \u2013 Original<\/a><\/h3>\n
\n dharmyAdh dhi yudhdhAch chrEyo\u2019nyath kshathriyasya na vidhyathE ||<\/em><\/p>\nword-by-word meaning<\/h3>\n
\nsvadharmam avEkshya – even if you look at your dharmam (duty of fighting)
\nvikampithum – to evade (your duty)
\nna arhasi – you should not do
\nkshathriyasya – for a king
\ndharmyAth yudhdhAth – better than fighting for righteousness
\nanyath – something else
\nSrEya: – that will bring glories
\nna vidhyathE hi – isnt it absent?<\/p>\nSimple Translation<\/h3>\n
Rendering based on ALkoNdavilli gOvindhAchArya swAmy\u2019s English translation of gIthA bhAshyam<\/h3>\n
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