BG 2.9

सञ्जय उवाच
एवमुक्त्वा हृषीकेशं गुडाकेशः परन्तपः ।
न योत्स्य इति गोविन्दमुक्त्वा तूष्णीं बभूव ह ॥
sañjaya uvāca
evam uktvā hṛṣīkeśaṁ guḍākeśaḥ parantapaḥ
na yotsya iti govindam uktvā tūṣṇīṁ babhūva ha

Word-for-word meanings

sañjayaḥ uvāca — Sañjaya said;  uktvā — having spoken;  evam — thus;  hṛṣīkeśam — to Kṛṣṇa, the master of the senses;  guḍākeśaḥ — Arjuna, the master of curbing ignorance;  parantapaḥ — [and] the scorcher of enemies;  uktvā — speaking;  iti — thus;  govindam — to Kṛṣṇa;  na yotsye — “I shall not fight;  ” babhūva — became;  ha — decidedly;  tūṣṇīm — silent.

Translation

Sañjaya said: After speaking thus to Hṛṣīkeśa, Guḍākeśa, the scorcher of enemies, said to Govinda, “I will not fight,” and became silent.

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