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Bhagavad Gita 11.42

यच्चावहासार्थमसत्कृतोऽसिविहारशय्यासनभोजनेषु।एकोऽथवाप्यच्युत तत्समक्षंतत्क्षामये त्वामहमप्रमेयम्॥

yaccāvahāsārthamasatkṛto'sivihāraśayyāsanabhojaneṣu |eko'thavāpyacyuta tatsamakṣaṃtatkṣāmaye tvāmahamaprameyam ||

In whatever way I may have insulted You for the sake of fun, while at play, reposing, sitting, or at meals, when alone (with You), O Krishna, or in company, that I implore You, immeasurable one, to forgive.

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

Whatever insults I have offered to You in jest, in sport, in repose, in conversation, or at a banquet, alone or in a crowd, I ask for Your forgiveness for them all, O You Who are without equal!

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 11.42 · SatsangVidya