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Bhagavad Gita 11.51

अर्जुन उवाच · arjuna uvāca

दृष्ट्वेदं मानुषं रूपं तवसौम्यं जनार्दन।इदानीमस्मि संवृत्तः सचेताः प्रकृतिं गतः॥

dṛṣṭvedaṃ mānuṣaṃ rūpaṃ tavasaumyaṃ janārdana |idānīmasmi saṃvṛttaḥ sacetāḥ prakṛtiṃ gataḥ ||

Arjuna said, "Having seen this Thy gentle human form, O Krishna, now I am composed and have been restored to my own nature."

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

Arjuna said: Seeing You in Your gentle human form, my Lord, I am myself again, calm once more.

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.