Chapter 1 ; Verse 27 ; Bhagavad Gita

TEXT 27

tan samiksya sa kaunteyah 
sarvan bandhun avasthitan 
krpaya parayavisto 
visidann idam abravit

SYNONYMS

tan--all of them; samiksya--after seeing; sah--he; kaunteyah--the son of Kunti; sarvan--all kinds of; bandhun--relatives; avasthitan--situated;krpaya--by compassion; paraya--of a high grade; avistah--overwhelmed by; visidan--while lamenting; idam--thus; abravit--spoke.

TRANSLATION

   When the son of Kunti, Arjuna, saw all these different grades of friends and relatives, he became overwhelmed with compassion and spoke thus: