In the supplied attestations śoka denotes the grief or sorrow that overcomes Arjuna at the outset of the Bhagavad Gītā. At 1.46 it names the affliction that agitates his mind (śoka-saṃvigna-mānasa), and at 2.8 it is characterized as "drying up the senses" (śokam ucchoṣaṇam indriyāṇām), a grief for which Arjuna can find no remedy. In the second chapter the cognate verbal form (śocitum) recurs in a normative refrain: granting either supposition about the self (2.26), or in the face of an unavoidable matter (2.27), or because the embodied self is indestructible (2.30), Arjuna is repeatedly told that he ought not to grieve. Thus across these loci śoka functions both as a named mental affliction and as an act of grieving declared unfitting.
Senses
The reading surface. A later ingestion attaches a locus to a settled sense, or proposes a new one (dashed) for human triage — it never rewrites settled prose.
1 · Grief/sorrow as a mental affliction that agitates and overwhelms the mind (Arjuna's condit…settledadded v1
Grief/sorrow as a mental affliction that agitates and overwhelms the mind (Arjuna's condition).
smṛti (epic-philosophical)
bhagavadgita:1.46
2 · Grief conceived as a debilitating affliction that 'dries up the senses' (ucchoṣaṇam indriy…settledadded v1
Grief conceived as a debilitating affliction that 'dries up the senses' (ucchoṣaṇam indriyāṇām) and for which the agent finds no means of removal.
smṛti (epic-philosophical)
bhagavadgita:2.8
3 · Grieving (verbal: śocitum) as an act declared improper or unfitting — given either supposi…settledadded v1
Grieving (verbal: śocitum) as an act declared improper or unfitting — given either supposition about the self's birth and death (2.26), given the unavoidability of the matter (2.27), and given the embodied self's indestructibility (2.30).
v1Bhagavad Gītā mūla (ch. 1) — +5 loci 3 sense(s) drafted from 5 Gītā locus/loci.
Caveats
The corpus supplied consists only of Bhagavad Gītā mūla verses; no commentary loci from Gauḍapāda or Śaṅkara were supplied, so no commentary positions can be attributed.
Loci 2.26, 2.27, and 2.30 attest the verbal form śocitum ('to grieve') rather than the noun śoka itself; they are included as cognate evidence for the concept.
All attestations are concentrated in the opening situation of Arjuna's despondency (BhG 1–2); no later usages are present in the supplied set, so the scope of the entry is limited to that context.