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1.29Arjuna
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सीदन्ति मम गात्राणि मुखं च परिशुष्यति ।वेपथुश्च शरीरे मे रोमहर्षश्च जायते ॥

sīdanti mama gātrāṇi mukhaṃ ca pariśuṣyati |vepathuś ca śarīre me romaharṣaś ca jāyate ||

सीदन्ति · sīdanti
sink, give way, tremble
मम · mama
my
गात्राणि · gātrāṇi
limbs
मुखम् · mukham
mouth
· ca
and
परिशुष्यति · pariśuṣyati
dries up, parches
वेपथुः · vepathuḥ
trembling, shivering
शरीरे · śarīre
in the body
मे · me
my
रोमहर्षः · romaharṣaḥ
horripilation (hair standing on end)
जायते · jāyate
arises, occurs

My limbs sink, my mouth dries up, my body trembles, and my hair stands on end.

Original plain-language translation

Grief arrives as physiology before philosophy — every symptom of shock catalogued in two lines. The epic insists Arjuna's crisis is embodied, not abstract: the body knows before the mind can argue.

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