Krishna
कच्चिदेतच्छ्रुतं पार्थ त्वयैकाग्रेण चेतसा । कच्चिदज्ञानसंमोहः प्रनष्टस्ते धनञ्जय ॥
kaccidetacchrutaṃ pārtha tvayaikāgreṇa cetasā | kaccidajñānasaṃmohaḥ pranaṣṭaste dhanañjaya ||
O Partha, did you listen to this with a single-pointed mind? And has the confusion born of ignorance been destroyed in you, O Dhananjaya?
Explanation Having finished his teaching, Krishna now asks Arjuna two direct questions: whether he listened with full attention, and whether his bewilderment (moha) caused by ignorance (ajñāna) has gone. The question brings the dialogue full circle, since Arjuna's confusion at the start of the battle is what prompted the whole discourse. Arjuna answers in the next verse.
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About the Bhagavad Gita
The Bhagavad Gita, in Sanskrit श्रीमद्भगवद्गीता (Śrīmad Bhagavad Gītā ), “the song of the Lord”, is a dialogue of 18 chapters and 700 verses from the Bhishma Parva of the Mahabharata. On the battlefield of Kurukshetra, as the war is about to begin, the warrior Arjuna loses heart at the thought of fighting his own kin, and his charioteer Krishna answers him: on duty, on acting without attachment to the results, on knowledge, meditation and devotion. Sanjaya recounts the conversation to the blind king Dhritarashtra. The name is also written Bhagwad Gita, Bhagvad Gita, Bhagavat Gita or Bhagavad Geeta; with the honorific, Shrimad Bhagavad Gita, Srimad Bhagavad Gita or Shrimad Bhagwat Geeta; and often simply the Gita or Geeta.
Every verse is here in the original Sanskrit, with a Roman (IAST) transliteration, a plain-language translation and a short explanation, in English, Hindi, Arabic, Spanish, French and Tamil. The translations were made from the Sanskrit for this site and reviewed; they follow no published translation. Reading is free, with no account or advertising, and your progress stays in your browser. The verses are numbered 1.1 to 18.78, 701 in all, counting the question that opens chapter 13.
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