# Bhagavad Gita 1.37

**Canonical reference:** `gita.1.37`  
**Speaker:** Arjuna  
**Corpus version:** gita-1.0.0-rc.1

## Sanskrit (Devanagari)

तस्मान्नार्हा वयं हन्तुं धार्तराष्ट्रान्स्वबान्धवान्।
स्वजनं हि कथं हत्वा सुखिनः स्याम माधव ॥

## IAST

tasmānnārhā vayaṃ hantuṃ dhārtarāṣṭrānsvabāndhavān
svajanaṃ hi kathaṃ hatvā sukhinaḥ syāma mādhava

## English — Kashinath Trimbak Telang, 1882

Therefore it is not proper for us to kill our own kinsmen the sons of Dhṛtarāṣṭra. For how O Mādhava! shall we be happy after killing our own relatives?

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