Even if I could obtain the Three Realms, I don't want to kill anyone.

Arjuna expresses his unwillingness to kill his relatives with the strongest possible words. Even if the other party tries to kill him, he will not kill them. He says that even if he is offered dominion over the earthly kingdom, as well as all three realms, he would refuse it.

What determines the decision here is not the size of the profit that can be obtained. No matter how large a reward is offered, the means of killing relatives are unacceptable. While thinking that if one stops fighting, there will be no claims against the kingdom, and the other party will also lose the reason to kill oneself, even if attacked, choosing to be killed rather than attacking is a complete rejection of war.

Japanese Translation from the Geeta Press Edition - Chapter 1, Section 35: "Even for the Sake of Ruling the Three Worlds"

Even if I were to kill him, Arjuna, what would be the purpose of ruling over all three worlds?

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Vocabulary

etān means "them".

"na hantum icchāmi" means "I do not want to kill."

"ghnataḥ api" means "even if they kill me."

"Madhusudana" is a name for Krishna, and it means "the one who killed the demon Madhu."

api trailokyarājyasya hetoḥ means, "even for the sake of ruling the three realms."

"kiṁ nu mahīkṛte" means, "And for the sake of this earthly kingdom, how could one possibly kill?"

Translation

"O, you who destroyed Madu, Even if they kill me, I do not want to kill them."

Even for the sake of dominating the Three Realms, it is like that.

Furthermore, for the sake of this earthly kingdom, how can we possibly kill them?"

Annotated Translation

In this section, Arjuna describes his relationship with the heroes who have gathered on both sides of the army and expresses that he does not want to kill them for any reason.

Here, by using the words "ghnataḥ" and "api," Arjuna is indicating the following:

The warriors on my side do not have any reason to be hostile towards him.

Furthermore, even relatives on the enemy side are likely to abandon the desire to kill Arjuna if he stops fighting.

Because they came to fight in order to maintain the kingdom as their own.

If Arjuna stops fighting, he himself will renounce all claims to the kingdom.

If that were to happen, they would no longer have any reason to think about killing Arjuna.

However, even so, if someone from the enemy army were to target Arjuna's life, Arjuna would not try to kill that person.

Even for the sake of dominating the three realms, I don't want to kill.

Furthermore, this is even more important for the sake of the earthly kingdom.