श्वशुरान्सुहृदश्चैव सेनयोरुभयोरपि ।तान्समीक्ष्य स कौन्तेयः सर्वान्बन्धूनवस्थितान् ॥
śvaśurān suhṛdaś caiva senayor ubhayor api |tān samīkṣya sa kaunteyaḥ sarvān bandhūn avasthitān ||
- श्वशुरान् · śvaśurān
- fathers-in-law
- सुहृदः · suhṛdaḥ
- well-wishers, comrades
- च · ca
- and
- एव · eva
- indeed
- सेनयोः · senayoḥ
- in the armies
- उभयोः · ubhayoḥ
- in both
- अपि · api
- even, also
- तान् · tān
- them
- समीक्ष्य · samīkṣya
- having surveyed, seeing fully
- सः · saḥ
- he, that
- कौन्तेयः · kaunteyaḥ
- the son of Kunti (Arjuna)
- सर्वान् · sarvān
- all
- बन्धून् · bandhūn
- kinsmen, relatives
- अवस्थितान् · avasthitān
- arrayed, standing ready
“Fathers-in-law and comrades too, in both armies. Surveying all those kinsmen arrayed before him, the son of Kunti…”
— Original plain-language translation
'…in both armies' — the tragedy is symmetric; Arjuna's loved ones stand on his own side as well, equally doomed. The sentence again runs over the verse-break, carrying us into his collapse.
— Reader's notes (original)