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Bhagavad Gita 11.41

सखेति मत्वा प्रसभं यदुक्तंहे कृष्ण हे यादव हे सखेति।अजानता महिमानं तवेदंमया प्रमादात्प्रणयेन वापि॥

sakheti matvā prasabhaṃ yaduktaṃhe kṛṣṇa he yādava he sakheti |ajānatā mahimānaṃ tavedaṃmayā pramādātpraṇayena vāpi ||

Whatever I have presumptuously said from carelessness or love, addressing You as O Krishna! O Yadava! O Friend! regarding You merely as a friend, unknowing of Your greatness.

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

Whatever I have said to you in rashness, taking you only as a friend and addressing you as “O Krishna! O Yadava! O Friend!” in thoughtless familiarity, without understanding your greatness;

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.