140 ([return])
[ The celestial weapons were forces dependent on mantras. Ordinary shafts, inspired with these mantras, were converted into celestial weapons.]
141 ([return])
[ In other words. Arjuna’s car shot as quickly through the enemy as the arrows themselves sped from it.]
142 ([return])
[ The Bengal reading of the first line is vicious. The Bombay reading is Vamatkum Vipathum, Vanan. The first word means the froth in the mouth of the steeds.]
143 ([return])
[ i.e., his funeral obsequies. The vernacular translators do not see the intended joke.]
144 ([return])
[ I give the sense of this verse, without giving a closely literal version.]