Bhagavad Gita: Chapter 3/Verse 36

Chapter 3/Verse 36

अर्जुन उवाच

अथ केन प्रयुक्तोऽयं पापं चरति पूरुषः ।

अनिच्छन्नपि वार्ष्णेय बलादिव नियोजितः ॥३- ३६॥

arjuna uvāca
atha kena prayukto'yaṃ pāpaṃ carati pūruṣaḥ ।
anicchannapi vārṣṇeya balādiva niyojitaḥ ॥3- 36॥

Arjuna said:

Then impelled by what? Even not wishing, a person commits evil. O Vārṣṇeya, like instigated from a force.


Word-for-word translations 

arjunas (masculine, nominative, singular) = Arjuna

uvāca (past tense verb, 3rd person, singular) = said 

atha (adverb) (indeclinable) = then

kena (interrogative, instrumental, singular) = by what?

prayuktas (past passive participle, masculine, nominative, singular) = impelled 

ayam (masculine, nominative, singular) = this

pāpam (neuter, accusative, singular) = evil 

carati (present tense, 3rd person, singular) = commits

pūruṣas (masculine, nominative, singular) = a person


anicchan (present participle, masculine, nominative, singular) =not wishing

api (adverb) (indeclinable) = even 

vārṣṇeya (masculine, vocative, singular) =  Vārṣṇeya (epithet of Krishna) 

balāt (neuter, ablative, singular) = from a force

iva (preposition) (indeclinable) = like 

niyojitas (past passive participle, masculine, nominative, singular) = instigated