Bhagavad Gita Chapter 1 Verse 29
भगवद् गीता अध्याय 1 श्लोक 29

सीदन्ति मम गात्राणि मुखं च परिशुष्यति।
वेपथुश्च शरीरे मे रोमहर्षश्च जायते।।1.29।।



English Translation - Swami Gambirananda
1.29 And there is trembling in my body, and there is horripillation; the Gandiva (bow) slips from the hand and even the skin burns intensely.


English Translation - Swami Sivananda
1.29. My limbs fail and my mouth is parched, my body ivers and
my hair stands on end.


English Translation - Dr. S. Sankaranarayan
1.29. I am unable even to stand steady;  and my mind seems to be confused;  and I see adverse omens,  O Kesava!


English Commentary  - Swami Sivananda
1.29 सीदन्ति fail? मम my? गात्राणि limbs? मुखम् mouth? च and? परिशुष्यति is parching? वेपथुः shivering? च and? शरीरे in body? मे my? रोमहर्षः horripilation? च and? जायते arises.No Commentary.


English Translation of Sanskrit Commentary By Sri Shankaracharya's
1.29 Sri Sankaracharya did not comment on this sloka. The commentary starts from 2.10.


English Translation of Commentary  - Dr. S. Sankaranarayan
1.12  1.29  Sri Abhinavgupta did not comment upon this sloka.


English Translation of Ramanuja's Sanskrit Commentary
1.26 - 1.47 Arjuna said - Sanjaya said  Sanjaya continued:  The high-minded Arjuna, extremely kind, deeply friendly, and supremely righteous, having brothers like himself, though repeatedly deceived by the treacherous attempts of your people like burning in the lac-house etc., and therefore fit to be killed by him with the help of the Supreme Person, nevertheless said, I will not fight.

He felt weak, overcome as he was by his love and extreme compassion for his relatives. He was also filled with fear, not knowing what was righteous and what unrighteous. His mind was tortured by grief, because of the thought of future separation from his relations. So he threw away his bow and arrow and sat on the chariot as if to fast to death.


Commentary  - Chakravarthi Ji
Please see text 29 for Sri Visvanatha Cakravarti Thakur’s combined commentary to texts 28 and 29.


Rudra Vaishnava Sampradaya - Commentary

Moreover my body which is trembling with horripilation, with a bristling  of
hairs; slips, falls down and is burning, feeling scorched all over.


Brahma Vaishnava Sampradaya - Commentary


Madhvacarya has no commentary so we present  Baladeva Vidyabhusanas.

Vepathuh means trembling, romaharsah means horripilation,  the  Gandiva  bow
slipping from his hand shows impatience and paridahyate which is burning  of
the skin is a burning of the heart also.


Shri Vaishnava Sampradaya - Commentary
There is no commentary for this verse.


Kumara Vaishnava Sampradaya - Commentary
Here Arjuna is  vividly  illustrating  how  the  shock  and  horror  of  the
upcoming war is starting to affect him. His physical body is being  attacked
by weakness of limbs, parchness of throat, horripilation and  hair  standing
on end. Even his famous  Gandiva bow slipping from his hand.


Transliteration Bhagavad Gita 1.29Seedanti mama gaatraani mukham cha parishushyati;
Vepathushcha shareere me romaharshashcha jaayate.


Word Meanings Bhagavad Gita 1.29vepathuḥ—shuddering; cha—and; śharīre—on the body; me—my; roma-harṣhaḥ—standing of bodily hair on end; cha—also; jāyate—is happening; gāṇḍīvam—Arjun’s bow; sraṁsate—is slipping; hastāt—from (my) hand; tvak—skin; cha—and; eva—indeed; paridahyate—is burning all over; na—not; cha—and; śhaknomi—am able; avasthātum—remain steady; bhramati iva—whirling like; cha—and; me—my; manaḥ—mind; nimittāni—omens; cha—and; paśhyāmi—I see; viparītāni—misfortune; keśhava—Shree Krishna, killer of the Keshi demon; na—not; cha—also; śhreyaḥ—good; anupaśhyāmi—I foresee; hatvā—from killing; sva-janam—kinsmen; āhave—in battle