Bhagavad Gita, Chapter 1, Verse 30
गाण्डीवं स्रंसते हस्तात्त्वक्चैव परिदह्यते । न च शक्नोम्यवस्थातुं भ्रमतीव च मे मनः
gāṇḍīvaṃ sraṃsate hastāttvakcaiva paridahyate | na ca śaknomyavasthātuṃ bhramatīva ca me manaḥ
Translation
The Gāṇḍīva slips from my hand, and my skin is intensely burning. I am also unable to stand and my mind is whirling round, as it were.
— Alladi Mahadeva Sastri
Word meanings
- gāṇḍīvam
- Gāṇḍīva
- sraṃsate
- slips
- hastāt
- from hand
- tvak
- skin
- ca
- and
- eva
- also
- paridahyate
- burns all over
- na
- not
- ca
- and
- śaknomi
- (I) am able
- avasthātum
- to stand
- bhramati
- wanders
- iva
- like
- ca
- and
- me
- my
- manaḥ
- mind