Bhagavad Gita Chapter 1 Verse 30
भगवद् गीता अध्याय 1 श्लोक 30

गाण्डीवं स्रंसते हस्तात्त्वक्चैव परिदह्यते।
न च शक्नोम्यवस्थातुं भ्रमतीव च मे मनः।।1.30।।



English Translation - Swami Gambirananda
1.30 Moreover, O Kesava (Krsna), I am not able to stand firmly, and my mind seems to be whirling. And I notice the omens to be adverse.


English Translation - Swami Sivananda
1.30. The (bow) Gandiva slips from my hand, and also my skins burns
all over; I am unable even to stand and my mind is reeling, as it were.


English Translation - Dr. S. Sankaranarayan
1.30. I also do not foresee any good by killing my own kinsmen in the battle.  O Krsna! I wish niether victory,  nor kingdom,  nor the pleasures  [thereof].


English Commentary  - Swami Sivananda
1.30 गाण्डीवम् Gandiva? स्रंसते slips? हस्तात् from (my) hand? त्वक् (my) skin? च and? एव also? परिदह्यते burns all over? न not? च and? शक्नोमि (I) am able? अवस्थातुम्? to stand? भ्रमति इव seems whirling? च and? मे my? मनः mind.No Commentary.


English Translation of Sanskrit Commentary By Sri Shankaracharya's
1.30 Sri Sankaracharya did not comment on this sloka. The commentary starts from 2.10.


English Translation of Commentary  - Dr. S. Sankaranarayan
1.30 – 1.34  Na ca sreyah, etc., upto mahikrte. Those who are wrongly conceived as object of slaying, with the individualizing idea that these are my teachers etc.8 would necessarily generate sin. Similarly, the act of slaying even of those deserving to be slain in the battle-if undertaken with the idea that This battle is to be fought for the apparent results like pleasures, happiness etc.- then it generates sin necessarily. This idea lurks in the objection [of Arjuna]. That is why a reply is going to be given [by Bhagavat] as You must undertake actions simply as your own duty, and not with an individualizing idea.


English Translation of Ramanuja's Sanskrit Commentary
1.26 - 1.47 Arjuna said - Sanjaya said  Sanjaya continued:  The high-minded Arjuna, extremely kind, deeply friendly, and supremely righteous, having brothers like himself, though repeatedly deceived by the treacherous attempts of your people like burning in the lac-house etc., and therefore fit to be killed by him with the help of the Supreme Person, nevertheless said, I will not fight.

He felt weak, overcome as he was by his love and extreme compassion for his relatives. He was also filled with fear, not knowing what was righteous and what unrighteous. His mind was tortured by grief, because of the thought of future separation from his relations. So he threw away his bow and arrow and sat on the chariot as if to fast to death.


Commentary  - Chakravarthi Ji
Seeing all these known people, my mouth has dried up. The phrase “As I stand here” should be added at the beginning of the sentence. “As I stand here seeing this, my limbs become weak.”


Rudra Vaishnava Sampradaya - Commentary

Furthermore I am not able to  stand  here  and  compose  myself  for  I  see
adverse omens and portents which forebode evil.


Brahma Vaishnava Sampradaya - Commentary

Madhvacarya has no commentary so we present Baladeva Vidyabhusanas.

It is as if my mind is unsteady. With these words of dejection the  weakness
of Arjuna is disclosed and it can be understood that he is close  to  losing
consciousness. He says: in in this  war  I  am  seeing  the  consequense  of
opposing results. This means that even if he were  victorious  in  obtaining
the kingdom he would not feel any satisfaction. To  the  contrary  he  would
feel just the opposite, he would feel remorse. Here in this sense  the  word
nimittani meaning inauspicious omens is not given as  a  symptom  but  as  a
result.


Shri Vaishnava Sampradaya - Commentary
There is no commentary for this verse.


Kumara Vaishnava Sampradaya - Commentary
The burning sensation in his skin and tremors in the left side of  the  body
are all indicative of evil forecasting adverse omens of dire consequences.


Transliteration Bhagavad Gita 1.30Gaandeevam sramsate hastaat twak chaiva paridahyate;
Na cha shaknomyavasthaatum bhramateeva cha me manah.


Word Meanings Bhagavad Gita 1.30vepathuḥ—shuddering; cha—and; śharīre—on the body; me—my; roma-harṣhaḥ—standing of bodily hair on end; cha—also; jāyate—is happening; gāṇḍīvam—Arjun’s bow; sraṁsate—is slipping; hastāt—from (my) hand; tvak—skin; cha—and; eva—indeed; paridahyate—is burning all over; na—not; cha—and; śhaknomi—am able; avasthātum—remain steady; bhramati iva—whirling like; cha—and; me—my; manaḥ—mind; nimittāni—omens; cha—and; paśhyāmi—I see; viparītāni—misfortune; keśhava—Shree Krishna, killer of the Keshi demon; na—not; cha—also; śhreyaḥ—good; anupaśhyāmi—I foresee; hatvā—from killing; sva-janam—kinsmen; āhave—in battle