Swami Swarupananda, Srimad Bhagavad Gita (1909)
[4](V8.12 missing from Swarupananda indexed text)
BG 8.12
सर्वद्वाराणि संयम्य मनो हृदि निरुध्य च | मूर्ध्न्याधायात्मनः प्राणमास्थितो योगधारणाम् ||१२||
sarva-dvārāṇi saṃyamya mano hṛdi nirudhya ca | mūrdhny ādhāyātmanaḥ prāṇam āsthito yoga-dhāraṇām || 12 ||
"Close all nine gates, hold mind in heart, fix prāṇa in the head — the body's yoga posture for final departure."
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5 translations · all pre-1928 or released to public domain · sources
Annie Besant & Bhagavan Das, The Bhagavad Gītā (1905)
[5]With all the gates closed, the mind shut into the heart, the life-breath fixed in the head, engaged in firm Yoga,
William Quan Judge, The Bhagavad Gita (1890)
[6]He who, having closed all the gates of the body, confined the mind in the heart, fixed the life-breath in the head, and taking his stand in firm Yoga,
Sir Edwin Arnold, The Song Celestial (1885)
[7]That way--the highest way--goes he who shuts The gates of all his senses, locks desire Safe in his heart, centres the vital airs Upon his parting thought, steadfastly set;
K.T. Telang, Sacred Books of the East Vol. 8 (1882)
[9]He who leaves the body and departs (from this world), stopping up all passages, and confining the mind within the heart, placing the life-breath in the head, and adhering to uninterrupted meditation.