Sanskrit
गुरूनहत्वा हि महानुभावान् श्रेयो भोक्तुं भैक्ष्यमपीह लोके । हत्वाऽर्थकामांस्तु गुरूनिहैव भुञ्जीय भोगान्रुधिरप्रदिग्धान् ॥
gurūn ahatvā hi mahānubhāvān śreyo bhoktuṃ bhaikṣyam apīha loke hatvārthakāmāṃs tu gurūn ihaiva bhuñjīya bhogān rudhirapradigdhān
Translation
Better in this world to eat even the beggar's crust than to slay these most noble Gurus. Slaying these Gurus, our well-wishers, I should taste of blood-besprinkled feasts.
Annie Besant · The Bhagavad-Gita, translated by Annie Besant (4th ed., 1922) — Wikisource · Public Domain
Explanation
Arjuna would rather live as a beggar than kill his teachers, even for a kingdom. The image is deliberately visceral — “blood-besprinkled feasts” — and it sets the emotional stakes the rest of the chapter’s philosophical argument has to actually meet, not merely out-argue.