11.26

Sanskrit

अमी च त्वां धृतराष्ट्रस्य पुत्राः सर्वे सहैवावनिपालसङ्घैः । भीष्मो द्रोणः सूतपुत्रस्तथाऽसौ सहास्मदीयैरपि योधमुख्यैः ॥

amī ca tvāṃ dhṛtarāṣṭrasya putrāḥ sarve sahaivāvanipālasaṅghaiḥ bhīṣmo droṇaḥ sūtaputras tathā'sau sahāsmadīyair api yodhamukhyaiḥ

Translation

The sons of Dhṛitarâshtra, and with them The multitude of all these kings of earth, Bhîshma, and Drona, Sûta's royal son, And all the noblest warriors of our hosts,

Annie Besant · The Bhagavad-Gita, translated by Annie Besant (4th ed., 1922) — Wikisource · Public Domain

Explanation

The vision stops being generically cosmic and turns personal: these are not abstract “worlds” but named men Arjuna has grown up beside — Bhîshma his grandfather-figure, Droṇa his teacher, Karṇa called out obliquely as “Sûta’s son.” Verse 21 already flagged what’s coming here — the same mouths that gods entered to praise are about to receive warriors “not to praise, but to be devoured.” Grammatically the sentence doesn’t even close; it runs on a trailing comma straight into verse 27, so the naming and the devouring arrive as a single continuous breath.