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Bhagavad Gita 11.47

श्री भगवानुवाच · śrī bhagavānuvāca

मया प्रसन्नेन तवार्जुनेदंरूपं परं दर्शितमात्मयोगात्।तेजोमयं विश्वमनन्तमाद्यंयन्मे त्वदन्येन न दृष्टपूर्वम्॥

mayā prasannena tavārjunedaṃrūpaṃ paraṃ darśitamātmayogāt |tejomayaṃ viśvamanantamādyaṃyanme tvadanyena na dṛṣṭapūrvam ||

The Blessed Lord said, "O Arjuna, this Cosmic Form has graciously been shown to you by Me through My own Yogic power. It is full of splendour, primeval, and infinite; this Cosmic Form of Mine has never been seen before by anyone other than you."

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

Lord Shri Krishna replied: My beloved friend! It is only through My grace and power that you have been able to see this vision of splendour, the Universal, the Infinite, the Original. Never has it been seen by anyone else.

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 11.47 · Vidya