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Bhagavad Gita 11.6

पश्यादित्यान्वसून्रुद्रानश्िवनौ मरुतस्तथा।बहून्यदृष्टपूर्वाणि पश्याऽश्चर्याणि भारत॥

paśyādityānvasūnrudrānaśिvanau marutastathā |bahūnyadṛṣṭapūrvāṇi paśyā'ścaryāṇi bhārata ||

Behold the Adityas, the Vasus, the Rudras, the two Asvins, and the Maruts; behold many wonders never before seen, O Arjuna.

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

Behold, thou seest the powers of Nature: fire, earth, wind, and sky; the sun, the heavens, the moon, the stars; all forces of vitality and healing; and the roving winds. Behold, thou seest the myriad wonders revealed to none but thee.

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 11.6 · SatsangVidya