{"id":591,"date":"2016-01-21T16:40:11","date_gmt":"2016-01-21T16:40:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/githa.koyil.org\/?p=591"},"modified":"2016-01-21T16:40:11","modified_gmt":"2016-01-21T16:40:11","slug":"1-25","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/githa.koyil.org\/index.php\/1-25\/","title":{"rendered":"1.25 &#8211; bhIshma-dhrONa-pramukatha:"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><small>SrI:\u00a0 SrImathE SatakOpAya nama:\u00a0 SrImathE rAmAnujAya nama:\u00a0 SrImath varavaramunayE nama:<\/small><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/githa.koyil.org\/index.php\/chapter-1\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Chapter 1<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/githa.koyil.org\/index.php\/1-24\">&lt;&lt; Chapter 1 Verse 24<\/a><\/p>\n<h3>SlOkam \u2013 <a href=\"https:\/\/githa.koyil.org\/index.php\/1-25-original\/\">Original<\/a><\/h3>\n<p><em>bhIshma dhrONa pramukatha: sarvEshAm cha mahIkshithAm |<\/em><br \/>\n<em>uvAcha pArtha paSyaithAn samavEthAn kurUnithi |<\/em><\/p>\n<h3>word-by-word meaning<\/h3>\n<p>bhIshma dhrONa pramukatha: &#8211; in front of bhIshma and dhrONa<br \/>\nsarvEshAm mahIkshithAm cha (pramUkatha:) &#8211; in front of all the kings<br \/>\npArtha &#8211; Oh son of prthA (kunthI)!<br \/>\nsamavEthAn &#8211; (those who assembled) to fight<br \/>\nEthAn kurUn &#8211; these dhuryOdhana et al who are descendants of kuru vamSam<br \/>\npaSya &#8211; see<br \/>\nithi &#8211; thus<br \/>\nuvAcha &#8211; spoke<\/p>\n<h3>Simple Translation<\/h3>\n<p>(Continued from previous SlOkam &#8211; positioning the chariot in-front of bhIshma dhrONa and others, \u00a0 krishNa tells arjuna) &#8220;Oh pArtha! See these dhuryOdhana et al who are descendants of kuru vamSam who are assembled to fight here&#8221;.<\/p>\n<h3>Rendering based on ALkoNdavilli gOvindhAchArya swAmy\u2019s English translation of gIthA bhAshyam<\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">So that it may be within sight of Bh\u012bshma, Dr\u014d\u1e47a and other leaders and rulers of countries, and said: \u2018See P\u0101rtha! these Kurus, assembled here.'&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p>After making a survey of the party of Dh\u1e5bitar\u0101shtra ranged in battle-order, Arjuna, the son of P\u0101\u1e47\u1e0du &#8211; he on whose standard is that monkey (Hanum\u0101n) which set Lanka on fire, &#8211; wished K\u1e5bish\u1e47a, to plant his chariot between the two armies;- wished Whom? no less a Personage than Him, The Treasury of such attributes as wisdom, strength, lordliness, constancy, power and lustre;- Him, to Whom His will-created Kosmos, in all its triple aspects of inception, development and decline is but sport; Him, who is H\u1e5bish\u012bke\u015ba[3. K\u1e5bish\u1e47a, &#8230;]; &#8211; Him, the Supreme Governor, the Exterior and Interior of all beings high and low; &#8211; Him, Who (so high, yet) descended, out of His condescending love for His faithful, so low as even to be Arjuna\u2019s Charioteer, carrying out Arjuna\u2019s orders to station his car in such a commanding position as to admit of a good view being had of all the belligerents, and within the range of the vision of such heroes as Bh\u012bshma, Dro\u1e47a, et al, and Kings of territories. He, Krishna, said after this to Arjuna, \u2018See then, what chances there be for your relatives\u2019 success over you!\u2019.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/githa.koyil.org\/index.php\/1-26\">&gt;&gt; Chapter 1 verse 26<\/a><\/p>\n<p>archived in <a href=\"https:\/\/githa.koyil.org\">https:\/\/githa.koyil.org<\/a><\/p>\n<p>pramEyam (goal) \u2013 <a href=\"http:\/\/koyil.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">http:\/\/koyil.org<\/a><br \/>\npramANam (scriptures) \u2013 <a href=\"http:\/\/srivaishnavagranthams.wordpress.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">http:\/\/srivaishnavagranthams.wordpress.com<\/a><br \/>\npramAthA (preceptors) \u2013 <a href=\"http:\/\/guruparamparai.wordpress.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">http:\/\/guruparamparai.wordpress.com<\/a><br \/>\nSrIvaishNava education\/kids portal \u2013 <a href=\"http:\/\/pillai.koyil.org\/\">http:\/\/pillai.koyil.org<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SrI:\u00a0 SrImathE SatakOpAya nama:\u00a0 SrImathE rAmAnujAya nama:\u00a0 SrImath varavaramunayE nama: Chapter 1 &lt;&lt; Chapter 1 Verse 24 SlOkam \u2013 Original bhIshma dhrONa pramukatha: sarvEshAm cha mahIkshithAm | uvAcha pArtha paSyaithAn samavEthAn kurUnithi | word-by-word meaning bhIshma dhrONa pramukatha: &#8211; in front of bhIshma and dhrONa sarvEshAm mahIkshithAm cha (pramUkatha:) &#8211; in front of all the &#8230; <a title=\"1.25 &#8211; bhIshma-dhrONa-pramukatha:\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/githa.koyil.org\/index.php\/1-25\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about 1.25 &#8211; bhIshma-dhrONa-pramukatha:\">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":[2,25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-591","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chapter-1","category-simple"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/githa.koyil.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/591","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=591"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/githa.koyil.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/591\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/githa.koyil.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=591"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/githa.koyil.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=591"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/githa.koyil.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=591"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}