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Bhagavad Gita 1.3

पश्यैतां पाण्डुपुत्राणामाचार्य महतीं चमूम्।व्यूढां द्रुपदपुत्रेण तव शिष्येण धीमता॥

paśyaitāṃ pāṇḍuputrāṇāmācārya mahatīṃ camūm |vyūḍhāṃ drupadaputreṇa tava śiṣyeṇa dhīmatā ||

Behold, O Teacher! This mighty army of the sons of Pandu, arrayed by the son of Drupada, thy wise disciple.

Translation by Swami Sivananda · Public domain in India (translator d. 1963)

Revered Father! Behold this mighty host of the Pandavas, paraded by the son of King Drupada, your wise disciple.

Translation by Shri Purohit Swami · Public domain in India (translator d. 1941)

Our plain-language meaning of this verse is waiting for scholar review.

Edition: Common 700-verse recension. Arjuna's opening question in chapter 13, absent from that recension, is kept as 13.0.

Transliteration in IAST, generated from the Devanagari text.

Source: Sanskrit text via gita/gita (Unlicense), from the Gita Supersite, IIT Kanpur. Sanskrit text public domain.