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
- च · 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.
— Reader's notes (original)