📿 Shloka Collection

Ami Cha Tvam Dhritarashtrasya

Gita 11.26 Bhagavad Gita
📖 Bhagavad Gita, Chapter 11 — Vishwarupa Darshana Yoga
अमी च त्वां धृतराष्ट्रस्य पुत्राः सर्वे सहैवावनिपालसङ्घैः ।
भीष्मो द्रोणः सूतपुत्रस्तथासौ सहास्मदीयैरपि योधमुख्यैः ॥
Ami cha tvam dhritarashtrasya putrah sarve sahaivavanipala-sanghaih
Bhishmo dronah sutaputrasthathasau sahasmadiyairapi yodhamukhyaih
धृतराष्ट्रस्य पुत्राः
the sons of Dhritarashtra
अवनिपालसङ्घैः
along with hosts of kings
भीष्मः द्रोणः
Bhishma and Drona
सूतपुत्रः
the son of a charioteer — Karna
अस्मदीयैः योधमुख्यैः
along with our own chief warriors too

Now the vision becomes personal. Arjuna is no longer looking at abstract cosmic forces. He is seeing faces he knows. The sons of Dhritarashtra — Duryodhana and his brothers. Hosts of kings from across Bharatavarsha. Bhishma, the grandsire of both armies. Drona, his own beloved teacher. Karna, the great rival. And then the words that must have cut deepest: 'along with our own chief warriors too.'

Both sides. Not just the enemy. Arjuna's own men are streaming into those terrible mouths alongside the Kauravas. The cosmic form does not take sides. It does not distinguish between the army Arjuna fights for and the army he fights against. All of them are moving toward the same destination.

This is the moment the war stops being a contest between right and wrong and becomes something much larger. The outcome was never in doubt — not because one side is stronger, but because Time has already decided. Arjuna is watching the future unfold inside the mouth of the infinite.

This shloka is in the Trishtup meter. It forms a pair with 11.27 — together they describe the complete scene of warriors entering the blazing mouths. The naming of specific warriors — Bhishma, Drona, Karna — makes the vision concrete and immediate.

The next shloka (11.27) completes this image with its most graphic detail: some warriors are caught between the teeth, their heads crushed.

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