Shankaracharya's commentary, trans. Alladi Mahadeva Sastry (1897)
[1]O mighty-armed — does the one fallen from both not perish like a rent cloud, without support, confused on the path of Brahman?
BG 6.38
कच्चिन्नोभयविभ्रष्टश्छिन्नाभ्रमिव नश्यति | अप्रतिष्ठो महाबाहो विमूढो ब्रह्मणः पथि ||३८||
kaccin nobhayavibhraṣṭaś chinnābhram iva naśyati | apratiṣṭho mahābāho vimūḍho brahmaṇaḥ pathi || 38 ||
"Fallen from both worlds, without support — does the wandering yogi simply perish, like a torn cloud, O mighty-armed?"
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Swami Swarupananda, Srimad Bhagavad Gita (1909)
[4]Does he not, fallen from both, perish, without support, hke a rent cloud, O mighty-armed, deluded in the path of Brah- man?
Annie Besant & Bhagavan Das, The Bhagavad Gītā (1905)
[5]O mighty-armed, fallen from both, without support, deluded on the path of the Eternal — does he not perish as a riven cloud?
William Quan Judge, The Bhagavad Gita (1890)
[6]O mighty-armed one, is he not lost to both paths, like a small cloud dispersed by the wind, without support, deluded as to the path of the Eternal?
Sir Edwin Arnold, The Song Celestial (1885)
[7]Arjuna: Does he not, without support and confused in the path of Brahman, perish like a rent cloud, fallen from both worlds, O mighty-armed?
K.T. Telang, Sacred Books of the East Vol. 8 (1882)
[9]Arjuna said: O mighty-armed, does he not, fallen from both, without support, perish like a rent cloud, deluded on the path of Brahman?