Gita Bhashya -Sankara 454

Shri Sankara's Gita Bhashya

(Sri Sankaracharya's Commentary on the Gita)

CHAPTER -11

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Vaktrāni te tvaramānā viśanti damstrākarālāni bhayānakāni
Kecid-vilagnā daśanāntaresu samdrsyante cūmitair-uttamāngaih

27. (They) enter precipitately into Thy mouths, terrible with tusks and fearful to behold. Some are found sticking in the interestices of Thy teeth, with their heads crushed to powder.

(They) enter precipitately into Thy mouths. How are those mouths?-Terrible with tusks and fearful to behold. Moreover. some, among those who have entered the mouths, are found stickinglike a piece of flesh which has been eaten, in the interstices of Thy teeth, with their heads (literally, the best limb of the body), crushed to powder, pounded.

How do they enter the mouths?

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