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Bhagavad Gita 11.36

अर्जुन उवाच · arjuna uvāca

स्थाने हृषीकेश तव प्रकीर्त्याजगत् प्रहृष्यत्यनुरज्यते च।रक्षांसि भीतानि दिशो द्रवन्तिसर्वे नमस्यन्ति च सिद्धसङ्घाः॥

sthāne hṛṣīkeśa tava prakīrtyājagat prahṛṣyatyanurajyate ca |rakṣāṃsi bhītāni diśo dravantisarve namasyanti ca siddhasaṅghāḥ ||

Arjuna said, "It is fitting, O Krishna, that the world delights and rejoices in Your praise; demons fly in fear in all directions and the hosts of the perfected ones bow to You."

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

Arjuna said: My Lord! It is natural for the world to revel and rejoice when singing praises of Your glory; the demons fly in fear and the saints offer You their salutations.

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.

Bhagavad Gita 11.36 · Vidya