Verse 1.29

सीदन्ति मम गात्राणि मुखं च परिशुष्यति ।

वेपथुश्च शरीरे मे रोमहर्षश्च जायते ॥

1.29

Transliteration

sīdanti mama gātrāṇi mukhaṃ ca pariśuṣyati |

vepathuśca śarīre me romaharṣaśca jāyate ||

By Sanskrit System · Machine draft · @indic-transliteration/sanscript 1.3.3

Translation

My limbs fail and my mouth is parched, my body ivers and my hair stands on end.

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Word by word

give way
my
limbs
mouth
and
is drying up

trembling
and
in the body
my
hair standing on end
and
arises

By Sanskrit System · Machine draft · claude-opus-5-5 · 2026-11-08

Explanation

Arjuna describes his distress in physical terms. His limbs sink, his mouth dries, his body shakes and his hair bristles. These are the signs of acute shock, and the Gita lets them be named plainly. The great archer, who a few verses ago raised his bow with confidence, now finds his own body failing him. The verse shows that his crisis is not an abstract doubt but something felt through his whole being, which is why the answer Krishna gives must also reach beyond argument alone.