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Arjuna

11.27 वक्त्राणि ते त्वरमाणा विशन्ति दंष्ट्राकरालानि भयानकानि। केचिद्विलग्ना दशनान्तरेषु संदृश्यन्ते चूर्णितैरुत्तमाङ्गैः

vaktrāṇi te tvaramāṇā viśanti daṃṣṭrākarālāni bhayānakāni | kecidvilagnā daśanāntareṣu saṃdṛśyante cūrṇitairuttamāṅgaiḥ

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vaktrāṇi—mouths;te—your;tvaramāṇāḥ—rushing;viśhanti—enter;danṣhṭrā—teeth;karālāni—terrible;bhayānakāni—fearsome;kechit—some;vilagnāḥ—getting stuck;daśhana-antareṣhu—between the teeth;sandṛiśhyante—are seen;chūrṇitaiḥ—getting smashed;uttama-aṅgaiḥ—heads

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My Personal Gita

Dr. S. Sankaranarayan

They hurry into Your fearsome mouths, with tusks that terrify; some of them, stuck between Your teeth, are clearly visible with their heads crushed.

Shri Purohit Swami

1 see them all rushing headlong into Thy mouths, with terrible tusks, horrible to behold. Some are mangled between thy jaws, with their heads crushed to atoms.

Swami Adidevananda

Hasten to enter Your fearful mouths with terrible fangs. Some, caught between the teeth are seen with their heads crushed to powder.

Swami Gambirananda

They rapidly enter into Your terrible mouths with cruel teeth! Some are seen sticking in the gaps between the teeth, with their heads crushed!

Swami Sivananda

They hurriedly enter into Thy mouths with terrible teeth and fearful to behold. Some are found sticking in the gaps between the teeth, with their heads crushed to powder.

Arjuna

11.29 यथा प्रदीप्तं ज्वलनं पतङ्गा विशन्ति नाशाय समृद्धवेगाः। तथैव नाशाय विशन्ति लोका स्तवापि वक्त्राणि समृद्धवेगाः

yathā pradīptaṃ jvalanaṃ pataṅgā viśanti nāśāya samṛddhavegāḥ | tathaiva nāśāya viśanti lokā stavāpi vaktrāṇi samṛddhavegāḥ

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yathā—as;pradīptam—blazing;jvalanam—fire;pataṅgāḥ—moths;viśhanti—enter;nāśhāya—to be perished;samṛiddha vegāḥ—with great speed;tathā eva—similarly;nāśhāya—to be perished;viśhanti—enter;lokāḥ—these people;tava—your;api—also;vaktrāṇi—mouths;samṛiddha-vegāḥ—with great speed

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My Personal Gita

Dr. S. Sankaranarayan

Just as moths, with full speed, enter into the flaming fire for their own destruction, in the same manner the worlds also enter, with full speed, into the mouths of Yours for their own destruction.

Shri Purohit Swami

As moths fly impetuously to the flame only to be killed, so these men rush into Thy mouths to court their own destruction.

Swami Adidevananda

As moths rush swiftly into a blazing fire to their destruction, so do these men swiftly rush into Your mouths to meet their destruction.

Swami Gambirananda

As moths enter with increased haste into a glowing fire for destruction, in that very way do the creatures enter into Your mouths too, with increased hurry for destruction.

Swami Sivananda

As moths hurriedly rush into a blazing fire for (their own) destruction, so also these creatures hurriedly rush into Thy mouths for (their own) destruction.

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11.28 यथा नदीनां बहवोऽम्बुवेगाः समुद्रमेवाभिमुखाः द्रवन्ति। तथा तवामी नरलोकवीरा विशन्ति वक्त्राण्यभिविज्वलन्ति

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yathā—as;nadīnām—of the rivers;bahavaḥ—many;ambu-vegāḥ—water waves;samudram—the ocean;eva—indeed;abhimukhāḥ—toward;dravanti—flowing rapidly;tathā—similarly;tava—your;amī—these;nara-loka-vīrāḥ—kings of human society;viśhanti—enter;vaktrāṇi—mouths;abhivijvalanti—blazing

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My Personal Gita

Dr. S. Sankaranarayan

Just as many water-rapids of the rivers race heading towards the ocean, in the same manner these heroes of the world of men enter into Your mouths, flaming all around.

Shri Purohit Swami

As rivers in flood surge furiously to the ocean, so these heroes, the greatest among men, fling themselves into Thy flaming mouths.

Swami Adidevananda

As many torrents of rivers flow towards the ocean, so do these heroes of the world of men enter Your flaming mouths.

Swami Gambirananda

As the numerous currents of the waters of rivers rush towards the sea alone so also do those heroes of the human world enter into Your blazing mouths.

Swami Sivananda

Verily, just as many torrents of rivers flow towards the ocean, even so these heroes of the world of men enter Thy flaming mouths.