In these two stanzas, there is an exhaustive enumeration of the symptoms that the patient could then recognise in his own physical body as a result of his mental confusions. That which Sanjaya had glorified as ‘pity’, when coming out of Arjuna’s own mouth, gains a more realistic expression. Arjuna says: “seeing my kinsmen gathered here anxiously determined to fight, my limbs shiver”…, etc.

All these symptoms are described in the text-books of modern psychology as typical symptoms of the mental disease named ‘anxiety-state-neurosis.’

Sri Sankaracharya did not comment on this sloka. The commentary starts from 2.10.