Word meanings
- yadi api
- even though
- ete
- they
- na
- not
- paśyanti
- see
- lobha
- greed
- upahata
- overpowered
- cetasaḥ
- thoughts
- kula-kṣaya-kṛtam
- in annihilating their relatives
- doṣam
- fault
- mitra-drohe
- to wreak treachery upon friends
- ca
- and
- pātakam
- sin
Translations
Though they, with intelligence overpowered by greed, see no evil in the destruction of families and no sin in hostility to friends,
Although these men, blinded by greed, see no guilt in destroying their kin or fighting against their friends,
- O Janardana, although these people, whose hearts have become perverted by greed, do not see the evil arising from destroying the family and sinning in hostility towards friends, yet how can we, who clearly see the evil arising from destroying the family, remain unaware of the need to abstain from this sin?
।।1.38 -- 1.39।। यद्यपि लोभ के कारण जिनका विवेक-विचार लुप्त हो गया है, ऐसे ये (दुर्योधन आदि) कुल का नाश करने से होनेवाले दोष को और मित्रों के साथ द्वेष करने से होनेवाले पाप को नहीं देखते, (तो भी) हे जनार्दन! कुल का नाश करने से होनेवाले दोष को ठीक-ठीक जाननेवाले हमलोग इस पाप से निवृत्त होने का विचार क्यों न करें?