न चैतद्विद्मः कतरन्नो गरीयो यद्वा जयेम यदि वा नो जयेयुः | यानेव हत्वा न जिजीविषामस्- तेऽवस्थिताः प्रमुखे धार्तराष्ट्राः ||२-६||
na caitadvidmaḥ kataranno garīyo yadvā jayema yadi vā no jayeyuḥ . yāneva hatvā na jijīviṣāmaḥ te.avasthitāḥ pramukhe dhārtarāṣṭrāḥ ||2-6||
- na
- nor
- ca
- also
- vidmaḥ
- do we know
- katarat
- which
- naḥ
- for us
- garīyaḥ
- better
- yat vā
- whether
- jayema
- we may conquer
- yadi
- if
- vā
- or
- naḥ
- us
- jayeyuḥ
- they conquer
- yān
- those who
- eva
- certainly
- hatvā
- by killing
- na
- never
- jijīviṣāmaḥ
- we would want to live
- te
- all of them
- avasthitāḥ
- are situated
- pramukhe
- in the front
- dhārtarāṣṭrāḥ
- the sons of Dhṛtarāṣṭra
Nor do we know which is better – conquering them or being conquered by them. If we killed the sons of Dhṛtarāṣṭra, we should not care to live. Yet they are now standing before us on the battlefield.