Bhagavadgita 2.34
Srimad-Bhagavad-Gita 2.34
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2.34
The world also will ever hold thee in reprobation. To the honoured, disrepute is surely worse than death.
2.34.n1
The present argument,—slokas 33-36, assumes that the cause in hand is already proved to be right. Hence it could only be from cowardice that Arjuna could abandon it. Even a hero may be weakened by the stirring of his deepest emotions.
Translations (2)
- The Bhagavadgîtâ (Sacred Books of the East, vol. 8) — Kashinath Trimbak Telang 1882, English
- The Song Celestial — Edwin Arnold 1885, English
Commentaries (11)
- Jñāneśvarī — Jñāneśvara, Marathi
- Subodhinī — Śrīdhara Svāmin, Sanskrit
- Bhagavadgītāvīraśaivabhāṣya — Sanskrit
- Bhagavadgītābhāṣya (Śāṅkarabhāṣya) — Śaṅkara, Sanskrit
- Bhagavadāśayānusaraṇabhāṣya — Bhāskara (Vedāntin), Sanskrit
- Gītābhāṣya (of Rāmānuja) — Rāmānuja, Sanskrit
- Tātparyabodhinī — Śaṅkarānanda, Sanskrit
- Tattvaprakāśikā — Keśava Kāśmīrī, Sanskrit
- Sārārthavarṣiṇī — Viśvanātha Cakravartin 1680, Sanskrit
- Bālabodhinī — G.S. Pathak 1825, Sanskrit
- Arthaprakāśikā — Upaniṣadbrahmayogin 1715, Sanskrit
Other recensions (1)
- Vulgate (700 verses) — Sanskrit
Linked texts (1)
- Bhagavadgītā — Vyāsa, Sanskrit