Sanskrit
द्रोणं च भीष्मं च जयद्रथं च कर्णं तथाऽन्यानपि योधवीरान् । मया हतांस्त्वं जहि मा व्यथिष्ठाः युद्ध्यस्व जेतासि रणे सपत्नान् ॥
droṇaṃ ca bhīṣmaṃ ca jayadrathaṃ ca karṇaṃ tathā'nyān api yodhavīrān mayā hatāṃs tvaṃ jahi mā vyathiṣṭhāḥ yuddhyasva jetāsi raṇe sapatnān
Translation
Drona and Bhîshma and Jayadratha, Karna, and all the other warriors here, Are slain by Me. Destroy them fearlessly. Fight! thou shalt crush thy rivals in the field.
Annie Besant · The Bhagavad-Gita, translated by Annie Besant (4th ed., 1922) — Wikisource · Public Domain
Explanation
Krishna closes his speech the way verse 26 opened Arjuna’s — by naming names. What was, in verse 26, a horrified catalogue of men about to be devoured is now, in Krishna’s mouth, a flat battle order: kill Drona, Bhîshma, Jayadratha, Karṇa. There’s no cushioning here, none of the affectionate epithets Krishna uses elsewhere for Arjuna — just an imperative, “jahi,” strike, repeated with “yuddhyasva,” fight. It’s the bluntest command in the entire dialogue so far, and it’s also the last thing Krishna says before the narrative frame reasserts itself and Sanjaya takes the account back over in the next verse.