Swami Swarupananda, Srimad Bhagavad Gita (1909)
[4]Having made pleasure and pain, gain and loss, victory and defeat the same, engage yourself in battle for the sake of battle; thus you shall not incur sin.
BG 2.38
सुखदुःखे समे कृत्वा लाभालाभौ जयाजयौ। ततो युद्धाय युज्यस्व नैवं पापमवाप्स्यसि॥
sukha-duḥkhe same kṛtvā lābhālābhau jayājayau / tato yuddhāya yujyasva naivaṃ pāpam avāpsyasi
"Treat pleasure and pain, gain and loss, victory and defeat as equal — then engage. No sin follows from this."
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William Quan Judge, The Bhagavad Gita (1890)
[6]Holding pleasure and pain, gain and loss, conquest and defeat to be the same, engage then in battle; for thus thou shalt not incur sin.
Sir Edwin Arnold, The Song Celestial (1885)
[7]Set pleasure and pain, gain and loss, victory and defeat, all the same; then brace to battle! So doing, thou canst not sin!
K.T. Telang, Sacred Books of the East Vol. 8 (1882)
[9]Treating alike pleasure and pain, gain and loss, conquest and defeat — then engage in battle. So shalt thou not get sin.