तं तथा कृपयाऽविष्टमश्रुपूर्णाकुलेक्षणम्।विषीदन्तमिदं वाक्यमुवाच मधुसूदनः॥
taṃ tathā kṛpayāviṣṭamaśru pūrṇākulekṣaṇamviṣīdantamidaṃ vākyam uvāca madhusūdanaḥ
Word by word
The verse says
Sanjaya said: To him, overcome with pity, his eyes full of tears and clouded with distress, sunk in grief, Krishna spoke these words.
In plain words
Before Krishna says anything, we are told what he is looking at.
A man overcome with pity. Eyes full of tears. Sight blurred. Sunk down. Four separate details, and every one of them is about how Arjuna looks from the outside.
This is the last calm sentence in the book. What comes next is a shock.
Where you've felt this · in grief
Your sister sits down across the kitchen table and you can see she has been crying before she says a word. Whatever you were going to open with gets quietly rearranged in the half-second before you speak.
Going deeper
What has hold of Arjuna is not fear. It is tenderness - kṛpā, pity - and that is a far harder thing to argue a person out of. Chapter 1 ended on the same word, and the poem repeats it deliberately.
His sight is ākula: clouded, churning. That is literal, because of the tears. It is also the condition Krishna spends the whole chapter treating. Arjuna's trouble is not that he lacks courage. It is that he cannot see straight, and a man who cannot see straight cannot be argued with either.
Then there is the name the poem picks for Krishna here - madhusūdana, the one who destroyed the demon Madhu. At the exact moment Arjuna is least able to fight, his friend is called by a name that means the one who destroyed something.
That is not a taunt. It is a reminder of who is sitting in the chariot with him, and the first sign that the help arriving will not be the soothing kind.