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यथा नदीनां बहवोऽम्बुवेगाः

समुद्रमेवाभिमुखा द्रवन्ति ।

तथा तवामी नरलोकवीरा

विशन्ति वक्त्राण्यभिविज्वलन्ति ॥

11.28

Transliteratie

yathā nadīnāṃ bahavo'mbuvegāḥ

samudramevābhimukhā dravanti |

tathā tavāmī naralokavīrā

viśanti vaktrāṇyabhivijvalanti ||

Door Sanskrit System · Machineconcept · @indic-transliteration/sanscript 1.3.3

Vertaling

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

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as
of rivers
many
torrents

the ocean
only
toward
rush

so
your
these
heroes of the human world

enter
mouths
flaming all around

Door Sanskrit System · Machineconcept · claude-opus-5-5 · 2026-11-08

Uitleg

Arjuna reaches for a comparison to make sense of what he sees. The warriors rush into Krishna's blazing mouths as rivers rush toward the sea. The image is both terrible and strangely calm. Rivers do not go to the ocean by force; it is their nature to flow there, and in the ocean they lose their separate names. Many readers find in this a suggestion that death is a return rather than simply a destruction. The heroes, so distinct in life, merge into the single form as streams merge into the sea.