vishada
विषाद viṣādaDespondency or dejection. Arjuna's collapse in chapter 1, which gives the chapter its name, Arjuna-vishada-yoga.
Where this term appears
- What is the Bhagavad Gita? Scriptures
The word the tradition gives Arjuna's state is vishada , despondency, and the first chapter carries his name and his grief: Arjuna-vishada-yoga , the chapter of Arjuna's dejection.
- The Song in the Middle Treatise
The despair that opens it The first of the eighteen chapters is given a title that tells you how unlike a sermon this scripture is. It is called the vishada yoga , the yoga of despondency.
- Reading the Bhagavad Gita in the modern world Journal
Telang) The tradition gives this collapse a name. Vishada , despondency, dejection.