Swami Swarupananda, Srimad Bhagavad Gita (1909)
[4]I see no good in slaying my own kinsmen in battle, O Krishna. I desire not victory, nor kingdom, nor pleasures.
BG 1.31
न च श्रेयोऽनुपश्यामि हत्वा स्वजनमाहवे। न काङ्क्षे विजयं कृष्ण न च राज्यं सुखानि च॥
na ca śreyo 'nupaśyāmi hatvā svajanam āhave / na kāṅkṣe vijayaṃ kṛṣṇa na ca rājyaṃ sukhāni ca
"Victory without the people you love — what does it cost, and what is it worth?"
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William Quan Judge, The Bhagavad Gita (1890)
[6]I foresee no advantage from the destruction of my kinsmen in battle, O Krishna; nor do I desire victory, or kingdom, or pleasures.
Sir Edwin Arnold, The Song Celestial (1885)
[7]I would not slay these — if they slay me — no, not for all three worlds! No more for Earth's wide realm! What joy shall come From slaying Kurus?
K.T. Telang, Sacred Books of the East Vol. 8 (1882)
[9]I foresee no good from killing these kinsmen in battle, O Krishna. I desire neither victory, nor kingdom, nor pleasures.