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Bhagavad Gita 1.11

अयनेषु च सर्वेषु यथाभागमवस्थिताः।भीष्ममेवाभिरक्षन्तु भवन्तः सर्व एव हि॥

ayaneṣu ca sarveṣu yathābhāgamavasthitāḥ |bhīṣmamevābhirakṣantu bhavantaḥ sarva eva hi ||

Therefore, do all of you, stationed in your respective positions in the several divisions of the army, protect Bhishma alone.

Translation by Swami Sivananda · Public domain in India (translator d. 1963)

Therefore, let the rank and file stand firm in their posts according to battalions, and all you generals around Bheeshma.

Translation by Shri Purohit Swami · Public domain in India (translator d. 1941)

Our plain-language meaning of this verse is waiting for scholar review.

Edition: Common 700-verse recension. Arjuna's opening question in chapter 13, absent from that recension, is kept as 13.0.

Transliteration in IAST, generated from the Devanagari text.

Source: Sanskrit text via gita/gita (Unlicense), from the Gita Supersite, IIT Kanpur. Sanskrit text public domain.