BG 1.38

कथं न ज्ञेयमस्माभिः पापादस्मान्निवर्तितुम्। कुलक्षयकृतं दोषं प्रपश्यद्भिर्जनार्दन॥

kathaṃ na jñeyam asmābhiḥ pāpād asmān nivartitum / kula-kṣaya-kṛtaṃ doṣaṃ prapaśyadbhir janārdana

"We can see this is wrong — why would we do it anyway?"

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4 translations · all pre-1928 or released to public domain · sources

Shankaracharya's commentary, trans. Alladi Mahadeva Sastry (1897)

[1]
Why should not we know enough to turn back from this sin — we who see clearly the evil in the destruction of the family, O Janardana?

Swami Swarupananda, Srimad Bhagavad Gita (1909)

[4]
O Janardana, why should not we, who clearly see the evil of the destruction of the family, learn to turn away from this sin?

William Quan Judge, The Bhagavad Gita (1890)

[6]
Why should not we, who clearly see the evil arising from the destruction of families, O Janardana, learn to refrain from committing this sin?

K.T. Telang, Sacred Books of the East Vol. 8 (1882)

[9]
Why should not we, O Janardana, who clearly see the evil in the destruction of the family, learn to refrain from this sin?