संजय उवाच
ते ऽनुज्ञातास् ततः पार्था जग्मुः स्वशिबिरं प्रति ॥
अभिवाद्य महात्मानं भीष्मं कुरुपितामहम् ॥
तथोक्तवति गाङ्गेये परलोकाय दीक्षिते ॥
अर्जुनो दुःखसंतप्तः सव्रीडम् इदम् अब्रवीत् ॥
गुरुणा कुलवृद्धेन कृतप्रज्ञेन धीमता ॥
पितामहेन संग्रामे कथं योत्स्यामि माधव ॥
क्रीडता हि मया बाल्ये वासुदेव महामनाः ॥
पांसुरूषितगात्रेण महात्मा परुषीकृतः ॥
यस्याहम् अधिरुह्याङ्कं बालः किल गदाग्रज ॥
तातेत्य् अवोचं पितरं पितुः पाण्डोर् महात्मनः ॥
नाहं तातस् तव पितुस् तातो ऽस्मि तव भारत ॥
इति माम् अब्रवीद् बाल्ये यः स वध्यः कथं मया ॥
कामं वध्यतु मे सैन्यं नाहं योत्स्ये महात्मना ॥
जयो वास्तु वधो वा मे कथं वा कृष्ण मन्यसे ॥
saṃjaya uvāca
te 'nujñātās tataḥ pārthā jagmuḥ svaśibiraṃ prati ||
abhivādya mahātmānaṃ bhīṣmaṃ kurupitāmaham ||
tathoktavati gāṅgeye paralokāya dīkṣite ||
arjuno duḥkhasaṃtaptaḥ savrīḍam idam abravīt ||
guruṇā kulavṛddhena kṛtaprajñena dhīmatā ||
pitāmahena saṃgrāme kathaṃ yotsyāmi mādhava ||
krīḍatā hi mayā bālye vāsudeva mahāmanāḥ ||
pāṃsurūṣitagātreṇa mahātmā paruṣīkṛtaḥ ||
yasyāham adhiruhyāṅkaṃ bālaḥ kila gadāgraja ||
tātety avocaṃ pitaraṃ pituḥ pāṇḍor mahātmanaḥ ||
nāhaṃ tātas tava pitus tāto 'smi tava bhārata ||
iti mām abravīd bālye yaḥ sa vadhyaḥ kathaṃ mayā ||
kāmaṃ vadhyatu me sainyaṃ nāhaṃ yotsye mahātmanā ||
jayo vāstu vadho vā me kathaṃ vā kṛṣṇa manyase ||
Sanjaya said: "Having received leave, the Parthas bowed to the great-souled Bhishma, grandsire of the Kurus, and set out for their own camp. When the son of Ganga, already consecrated for the world beyond, had spoken thus, Arjuna, consumed by grief, said with embarrassment: 'How shall I fight, Madhava, against my teacher, the elder of our clan, the wise and experienced grandsire? In childhood, Vasudeva, when I played with my body smeared in dust, I sometimes treated this great one roughly. I, a mere boy, elder brother of Gada, would climb onto his lap and call him father — the father of my father, the great Pandu. And he would say to me in my childhood: \"I am not the father of your father, Bharata; I am your father.\" How then can I kill one who was such to me? Let him slay my army as much as he wishes, but I will not fight this great one. Will victory be mine, or death, Krishna — what do you think?'"
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After Bhishma's direct instruction, Arjuna's pain grows sharper still. For him, Bhishma is not merely an adversary or an elder of the clan, but someone who in childhood stood in the place of a father.