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18.73Arjuna
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अर्जुन उवाच ।नष्टो मोहः स्मृतिर्लब्धा त्वत्प्रसादान्मयाच्युत ।स्थितोऽस्मि गतसन्देहः करिष्ये वचनं तव ॥

arjuna uvāca |naṣṭo mohaḥ smṛtir labdhā tvatprasādān mayācyuta |sthito 'smi gatasandehaḥ kariṣye vacanaṃ tava ||

अर्जुन · arjuna
Arjuna
उवाच · uvāca
said
नष्टः · naṣṭaḥ
destroyed
मोहः · mohaḥ
delusion
स्मृतिः · smṛtiḥ
memory, remembrance
लब्धा · labdhā
gained
अच्युत · acyuta
O Achyuta (unfallen Krishna)
स्थितः · sthitaḥ
firm, steady
अस्मि · asmi
I am
गतसन्देहः · gatasandehaḥ
with doubts gone
करिष्ये · kariṣye
I shall do
वचनम् · vacanam
the word, command
तव · tava
your

Arjuna said: Delusion is destroyed; remembrance is gained through your grace, O Achyuta. I stand firm, my doubts gone — I shall do your word.

Original plain-language translation

IN SHORT When confusion lifts and purpose returns, stand firm and act.

Arjuna's fourfold testimony — delusion gone, memory regained, steadiness, doubtlessness — ends in resolve: 'I shall do.' Smṛti here means recovered knowledge of who he is and what he must do. Grace (prasāda), not argument alone, gets the credit. The warrior stands where in 1.47 he sank; the Gita's cure is complete. It is like a patient remembering the doctor's advice at last, feeling steady and ready to follow it.

Reader's notes (original)