Swami Swarupananda, Srimad Bhagavad Gita (1909)
[4]Arjuna said: O Madhusudana, how shall I fight with arrows against Bhishma and Drona, who are worthy of worship, O destroyer of enemies?
BG 2.4
अर्जुन उवाच कथं भीष्ममहं संख्ये द्रोणं च मधुसूदन। इषुभिः प्रतियोत्स्यामि पूजार्हावरिसूदन॥
arjuna uvāca / kathaṃ bhīṣmam ahaṃ saṃkhye droṇaṃ ca madhusūdana / iṣubhiḥ pratiyotsyāmi pūjārhāv arisūdana
"How do you raise a weapon against the teacher who made you?"
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Sir Edwin Arnold, The Song Celestial (1885)
[7]Arjuna: How shall I in the battle shoot with shafts On Bhishma, or on Drona — O thou Chief — Both worshipful, both honorable men?
K.T. Telang, Sacred Books of the East Vol. 8 (1882)
[9]Arjuna said: O Madhusudana, how shall I fight with arrows in battle against Bhishma and Drona, who are worthy of reverence, O destroyer of enemies?