# Bhagavad Gita 1.45

**Canonical reference:** `gita.1.45`  
**Speaker:** Arjuna  
**Corpus version:** gita-1.0.0-rc.1

## Sanskrit (Devanagari)

अहो बत महत्पापं कर्तुं व्यवसिता वयम्।
यद्राज्यसुखलोभेन हन्तुं स्वजनमुद्यताः ॥

## IAST

aho bata mahatpāpaṃ kartuṃ vyavasitā vayam
yadrājyasukhalobhena hantuṃ svajanamudyatāḥ

## English — Kashinath Trimbak Telang, 1882

must necessarily live in hell. Alas! we are engaged in committing a heinous sin, seeing that we are making efforts for killing our own kinsmen out of greed of the pleasures of sovereignty.

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