सञ्जय उवाच ।तं तथा कृपयाविष्टमश्रुपूर्णाकुलेक्षणम् ।विषीदन्तमिदं वाक्यमुवाच मधुसूदनः ॥
sañjaya uvāca |taṃ tathā kṛpayāviṣṭam aśrupūrṇākulekṣaṇam |viṣīdantam idaṃ vākyam uvāca madhusūdanaḥ ||
- सञ्जय · sañjaya
- Sanjaya
- उवाच · uvāca
- said
- तम् · tam
- to him (Arjuna)
- तथा · tathā
- thus, in that state
- कृपयाविष्टम् · kṛpayāviṣṭam
- overcome with pity
- अश्रुपूर्णाकुलेक्षणम् · aśrupūrṇākulekṣaṇam
- whose eyes were filled and swimming with tears
- विषीदन्तम् · viṣīdantam
- despondent, sinking down
- इदम् · idam
- this
- वाक्यम् · vākyam
- speech
- उवाच · uvāca
- spoke
- मधुसूदनः · madhusūdanaḥ
- Madhusudana (Krishna)
“Sanjaya said: To him, overcome with pity, his eyes swimming with tears, despondent — to him Madhusudana spoke these words.”
— Original plain-language translation
Chapter 2 opens on the exact image Chapter 1 closed with: the collapsed archer. Krishna's first response is about to sound harsh — but note the tenderness of the staging first. The teaching begins only when the student has fully fallen.
— Reader's notes (original)