Shankaracharya's commentary, trans. Alladi Mahadeva Sastry (1897)
[1]When the Lord acquires a body, and when He leaves it, He takes these and goes, as the wind takes scents from their seats.
BG 15.8
शरीरं यद् अवाप्नोति यच् चाप्य् उत्क्रामतेश्वरः । गृहीत्वैतानि संयाति वायुर् गन्धान् इवाशयात् ॥
śarīraṃ yad avāpnoti yac cāpy utkrāmateśvaraḥ | gṛhītvaitāni saṃyāti vāyur gandhān ivāśayāt ||
"Like wind carrying fragrance, the jīva takes its 6-sense apparatus from body to body through each birth and death."
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Swami Swarupananda, Srimad Bhagavad Gita (1909)
[4]When the Lord obtains a body and when He leaves it, He takes these and goes, as the wind takes the scents from their seats (the flowers).
K.T. Telang, Sacred Books of the East Vol. 8 (1882)
[9]Whenever the ruler (of the bodily frame) obtains or quits a body, he goes taking these (with him) as the wind (takes) perfumes from their seats.
K.M. Ganguli, The Mahabharata, Bhishma Parva (1883–96)
[13]Whenever the ruler (of the bodily frame) obtains or quits a body, he goes taking these (with him) as the wind (takes) perfumes from their seats.