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Bhagavad Gita 11.50

सञ्जय उवाच · sañjaya uvāca

इत्यर्जुनं वासुदेवस्तथोक्त्वास्वकं रूपं दर्शयामास भूयः।आश्वासयामास च भीतमेनंभूत्वा पुनः सौम्यवपुर्महात्मा॥

ityarjunaṃ vāsudevastathoktvāsvakaṃ rūpaṃ darśayāmāsa bhūyaḥ |āśvāsayāmāsa ca bhītamenaṃbhūtvā punaḥ saumyavapurmahātmā ||

Sanjaya said, Having thus spoken to Arjuna, Krishna again showed His own form. The great Soul, assuming His gentle form, then consoled Arjuna, who was terrified.

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

Sanjaya continued: "Having thus spoken to Arjuna, Lord Shri Krishna showed Himself again in His accustomed form; and the Mighty Lord, in gentle tones, softly consoled him who had recently trembled with fear.

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.