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Bhagavad Gita 11.11

दिव्यमाल्याम्बरधरं दिव्यगन्धानुलेपनम्।सर्वाश्चर्यमयं देवमनन्तं विश्वतोमुखम्॥

divyamālyāmbaradharaṃ divyagandhānulepanam |sarvāścaryamayaṃ devamanantaṃ viśvatomukham ||

Wearing divine garlands and apparel, anointed with divine unguents, the all-wonderful, resplendent Being is endless with faces on all sides.

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

Crowned with heavenly garlands, clothed in shining garments, anointed with divine unguents, He showed Himself as the Resplendent One, Marvelous, Boundless, and Omnipresent.

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.