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Bhagavad Gita 11.44

तस्मात्प्रणम्य प्रणिधाय कायंप्रसादये त्वामहमीशमीड्यम्।पितेव पुत्रस्य सखेव सख्युःप्रियः प्रियायार्हसि देव सोढुम्॥

tasmātpraṇamya praṇidhāya kāyaṃprasādaye tvāmahamīśamīḍyam |piteva putrasya sakheva sakhyuḥpriyaḥ priyāyārhasi deva soḍhum ||

Therefore, bowing down and prostrating my body, I crave Thy forgiveness, O adorable Lord. As a father forgives his son, a friend his dear friend, a lover his beloved, even so may Thou forgive me, O God.

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

Therefore, I prostrate myself before You, O Lord! Most Adorable! I salute You, and I ask for Your blessing. Only You can be trusted to bear with me, like a father to a son, like a friend to a friend, and like a lover to his beloved.

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.