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Bhagavad Gita 11.14

ततः स विस्मयाविष्टो हृष्टरोमा धनञ्जयः।प्रणम्य शिरसा देवं कृताञ्जलिरभाषत॥

tataḥ sa vismayāviṣṭo hṛṣṭaromā dhanañjayaḥ |praṇamya śirasā devaṃ kṛtāñjalirabhāṣata ||

Then, Arjuna, filled with wonder and his hair standing on end, bowed his head to the God and spoke with palms joined.

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

Then, Arjuna, filled with awe, his hair standing on end, bowing his head, and clasping his hands in reverence, spoke to the Lord:

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.