{"id":4370,"date":"2017-06-12T21:40:05","date_gmt":"2017-06-12T21:40:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/githa.koyil.org\/?p=4370"},"modified":"2017-06-12T21:40:05","modified_gmt":"2017-06-12T21:40:05","slug":"11-25","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/githa.koyil.org\/index.php\/11-25\/","title":{"rendered":"11.25 dhamshtrAkarAlAni cha thE mukhAni"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><small>SrI:\u00a0 SrImathE SatakOpAya nama:\u00a0 SrImathE rAmAnujAya nama:\u00a0 SrImath varavaramunayE nama:<\/small><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/githa.koyil.org\/index.php\/11\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Chapter 11<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/githa.koyil.org\/index.php\/11-24\">&lt;&lt; Chapter 11 verse 24<\/a><\/p>\n<h3>SlOkam \u2013 <a href=\"https:\/\/githa.koyil.org\/index.php\/11-25-original\/\">Original<\/a><\/h3>\n<p><em>dhamshtrAkarAlAni cha thE mukhAni dhrushtvaiva kAlAnalasannibhAni | <\/em><br \/>\n<em> dhiSO na jAnE na labhE cha Sarma prasIdha dhEvESa jagannivAsa ||<\/em><\/p>\n<h3>word-by-word meaning  <\/h3>\n<p>dhEVESa &#8211; Oh lord of dhEvas!<br \/>\njagannivAsa &#8211; Oh the abode of all worlds!<br \/>\ndhamshtra karALAni &#8211; looking frightening due to the teeth<br \/>\nkAlAnala sannibhAni cha &#8211; resembling the fire of deluge<br \/>\nthE &#8211; your<br \/>\nmukhAni &#8211; faces\/mouths<br \/>\ndhrushtvA Eva &#8211; just on seeing<br \/>\ndhiSa: &#8211; directions<br \/>\nna jAnE &#8211; I do not know<br \/>\nna cha Sarma labhE &#8211; not attaining joy<br \/>\nprasIdha &#8211; become merciful [towards me]<\/p>\n<h3>Simple Translation  <\/h3>\n<p>Oh lord of dhEvas! Oh the abode of all worlds! On seeing your faces\/mouths which are looking frightening due to the teeth [which are present] and are resembling the fire of deluge, I do not know the directions and I do not attain joy. Become merciful [towards me].<\/p>\n<h3>Rendering based on ALkoNdavilli gOvindhAchArya swAmy\u2019s English translation of gIthA bhAshyam<\/h3>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">&#8216;Beholding Your <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wiktionary.org\/wiki\/visage#English\">Visages<\/a> terrific with tushes, and flaming like the Fires of Time,[1. The consuming Fires at <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wiktionary.org\/wiki\/cataclysmal\">cataclysmal<\/a> periods.] I forget where I am, nor find comfort. Mercy, O God of gods! O Kosmos-Refuge!.&#8217;<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Viewing Your many a <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wiktionary.org\/wiki\/visage#English\">Visage<\/a>, terrific like Time-flames,[2. The consuming Fires at cataclysmal periods.] waiting to consume, when the ends of Yugas come round, I fail to recognize directions, and I feel my happiness fled. O Habitat of the Kosmos! O, Supreme Lord of devas, of Brahm\u0101 and of \u012a\u015ba too! deign to be kind, and let me return to my old nature\u2019s ways.[3. That is, going back to his material condition with the usual physical eye-sight etc.]<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In this manner did P\u0101rtha\u2019s Charioteer[4. \u015ari K\u1e5bish\u1e47a.] demonstrate to him how all the Universe rested on Him, lived from Him and functioned through Him. He will now prove to P\u0101rtha (Arjuna), the destruction, He Himself, out of His Will, is going to bring on those who were seen siding with the party of Dh\u1e5bitar\u0101shtra in the guise of kings, and of those belonging to Yudhishtira, \u2014possessed of \u0100suric natures\u2014 so that (mother-) earth be rid of such burdens.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Arjuna, \u2014after having realized, with the spiritual eyes with which the Lord blessed Him, the Divine Powers of the Lord in His aspect as creating etc.,\u2014 now sees in the Lord, the all-Soul, with the self-same eyes, the event how all the hosts belonging to Dh\u1e5bitar\u0101shtra meet their destruction,\u2014 though an event which has not actually yet happened.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Arjuna continues:\u2014<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/githa.koyil.org\/index.php\/11-26\">&gt;&gt; Chapter 11 verse 26<\/a><\/p>\n<p>archived in <a href=\"https:\/\/githa.koyil.org\">https:\/\/githa.koyil.org<\/a><\/p>\n<p>pramEyam (goal) \u2013 <a href=\"http:\/\/koyil.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">http:\/\/koyil.org<\/a><br \/>\npramANam (scriptures) \u2013 <a href=\"http:\/\/granthams.koyil.org\">http:\/\/granthams.koyil.org<\/a><br \/>\npramAthA (preceptors) \u2013 <a href=\"http:\/\/acharyas.koyil.org\">http:\/\/acharyas.koyil.org<\/a><br \/>\nSrIvaishNava education\/kids portal \u2013 <a href=\"http:\/\/pillai.koyil.org\/\">http:\/\/pillai.koyil.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SrI:\u00a0 SrImathE SatakOpAya nama:\u00a0 SrImathE rAmAnujAya nama:\u00a0 SrImath varavaramunayE nama: Chapter 11 &lt;&lt; Chapter 11 verse 24 SlOkam \u2013 Original dhamshtrAkarAlAni cha thE mukhAni dhrushtvaiva kAlAnalasannibhAni | dhiSO na jAnE na labhE cha Sarma prasIdha dhEvESa jagannivAsa || word-by-word meaning dhEVESa &#8211; Oh lord of dhEvas! jagannivAsa &#8211; Oh the abode of all worlds! dhamshtra &#8230; <a title=\"11.25 dhamshtrAkarAlAni cha thE mukhAni\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/githa.koyil.org\/index.php\/11-25\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about 11.25 dhamshtrAkarAlAni cha thE mukhAni\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4370","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chapter-11","category-simple"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/githa.koyil.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4370","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/githa.koyil.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/githa.koyil.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/githa.koyil.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/githa.koyil.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4370"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/githa.koyil.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4370\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/githa.koyil.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4370"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/githa.koyil.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4370"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/githa.koyil.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4370"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}