Sanskrit · Devanagari
यथा नदीनां बहवोऽम्बुवेगाः समुद्रमेवाभिमुखा द्रवन्ति। तथा तवामी नरलोकवीरा विशन्ति वक्त्राण्यभिविज्वलन्ति ॥
Sanskrit · IAST
yathā nadīnāṃ bahavo.ambuvegāḥ samudramevābhimukhā dravanti tathā tavāmī naralokavīrā viśanti vaktrāṇyabhivijvalanti
English witness
Kashinath Trimbak Telang, 1882so do these heroes of the human world enter your mouths blazing all round. As butterflies with increased velocity
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Śaṅkarācārya
।।11.28।। --,यथा नदीनां स्रवन्तीनां बहवः अनेके अम्बूनां वेगाः अम्बुवेगाः त्वराविशेषाः समुद्रमेव अभिमुखाः प्रतिमुखाः द्रवन्ति प्रविशन्ति? तथा तद्वत? तव अमी भीष्मादयः नरलोकवीराः मनुष्यलोके शूराः विशन्ति वक्त्राणि अभिविज्वलन्ति प्रकाशमानानि।।ते किमर्थं प्रविशन्ति कथं च इत्याह --,
f09ba08adfea…Rāmānuja
11.28 - 11.29 These innumerable kings rush to their destruction in Your flaming mouths, even as many torrents of rivers flow towards the ocean and moths rush into a blazing fire.
257ed50d36c6…Swami Sivananda
11.28 यथा as? नदीनाम् of rivers? बहवः many? अम्बुवेगाः watercurrents? समुद्रम् to the ocean? एव verily? अभिमुखाः towards? द्रवन्ति flow? तथा so? तव Thy? अमी these? नरलोकवीराः heroes in the world of men? विशन्ति enter? वक्त्राणि mouths? अभिविज्वलन्ति flaming.Commentary Ami These warriors such as Bhishma. Arjuna is now seeing all these warriors,whom he did not wish to kill? rushing to death. His delusion has vanished. He thinks now This battle cannot be avoided. It has the sanction of the Supreme Lord. Why should I worry about the inevitable The Lord has already destroyed these warriors. I am only an instrument in His hands. No sin can touch me even if I kill them. This is a just cause also.Why and how do they enter Arjuna says --
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