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Bhagavad Gita 11.28

यथा नदीनां बहवोऽम्बुवेगाःसमुद्रमेवाभिमुखाः द्रवन्ति।तथा तवामी नरलोकवीराविशन्ति वक्त्राण्यभिविज्वलन्ति॥

yathā nadīnāṃ bahavo'mbuvegāḥsamudramevābhimukhāḥ dravanti |tathā tavāmī naralokavīrāviśanti vaktrāṇyabhivijvalanti ||

Verily, just as many torrents of rivers flow towards the ocean, so too these heroes in the world of men enter Thy flaming mouths.

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

As rivers in flood surge furiously towards the ocean, so these heroes, the greatest among men, fling themselves into Thy flaming mouths.

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.

Bhagavad Gita 11.28 · SatsangVidya