यदि मामप्रतीकारमशस्त्रं शस्त्रपाणयः।धार्तराष्ट्रा रणे हन्युस्तन्मे क्षेमतरं भवेत्॥
yadi mām apratīkāram aśastraṃ śastra-pāṇayaḥdhārtarāṣṭrā raṇe hanyus tan me kṣemataraṃ bhavet
Word by word
The verse says
It would be better for me if Dhritarashtra's men, weapons in hand, killed me in battle unarmed and unresisting.
In plain words
His last words in this chapter. He would rather be killed where he stands.
Unarmed. Not resisting. Let them come.
It is not quite a wish to die. It is a wish for the decision to be taken away from him by somebody else.
Where you've felt this · in grief
Hoping the other person ends it, so that you never have to. You tell yourself you are being considerate. What you are actually doing is arranging for the choice to be made without you.
Going deeper
This is the bottom of the chapter, and it is worth being exact about what kind of bottom it is.
Arjuna is not suicidal, and he is not afraid. What he wants is for the burden of choosing to be lifted off him. If they kill him unresisting, nothing is his fault. The war happens, he does not do it, and the guilt belongs to someone else.
That is the true shape of his collapse, and it is why Krishna's teaching goes where it goes. Arjuna's problem is ownership — he cannot bear being the one whose hand it is. Every argument he has made circles the same thing: the sin would be ours, the guilt ours, the kinsmen mine.
So the answer, when it arrives at 2.47, is aimed exactly here. Your claim is on the action, never on the fruit. Krishna is not going to tell Arjuna the war is good. He is going to take from him the thing that is crushing him: the belief that the whole outcome belongs to the man holding the bow.