BG 1.21b-22
अर्जुन उवाच
सेनयोरुभयोर्मध्ये रथं स्थापय मेऽच्युत ॥
यावदेतान्निरीक्षेऽहं योद्धुकामानवस्थितान् ।
कैर्मया सह योद्धव्यमस्मिन्रणसमुद्यमे ॥
सेनयोरुभयोर्मध्ये रथं स्थापय मेऽच्युत ॥
यावदेतान्निरीक्षेऽहं योद्धुकामानवस्थितान् ।
कैर्मया सह योद्धव्यमस्मिन्रणसमुद्यमे ॥
arjuna uvāca
senayor ubhayor madhye rathaṁ sthāpaya me ’cyuta
yāvad etān nirīkṣe ’haṁ yoddhu-kāmān avasthitān
kair mayā saha yoddhavyam asmin raṇa-samudyame
senayor ubhayor madhye rathaṁ sthāpaya me ’cyuta
yāvad etān nirīkṣe ’haṁ yoddhu-kāmān avasthitān
kair mayā saha yoddhavyam asmin raṇa-samudyame
Word-for-word meanings
arjunaḥ uvāca — Arjuna said; acyuta — O Acyuta (infallible one); sthāpaya — place; me — my; ratham — chariot; madhye — between; ubhayoḥ — both; senayoḥ — of the armies; aham — [so that] I; nirīkṣe — may observe; yāvat — for as long as required; etān — all these; yoddhu-kāmān — warriors desiring to fight; avasthitān — arrayed on the battlefield; kaiḥ saha — with whom; yoddhavyam — there is a necessity to fight; mayā — by me; asmin — in this; samudyame — enterprise; raṇa — of war.
Translation
Arjuna said: O Acyuta, place my chariot between the two armies, so I can carefully observe all these warriors desiring to fight, who are arrayed on the battlefield and with whom I must contend in this enterprise of war.