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Bhagavad Gita 18.74

सञ्जय उवाच · sañjaya uvāca

इत्यहं वासुदेवस्य पार्थस्य च महात्मनः।संवादमिममश्रौषमद्भुतं रोमहर्षणम्॥

ityahaṃ vāsudevasya pārthasya ca mahātmanaḥ |saṃvādamimamaśrauṣamadbhutaṃ romaharṣaṇam ||

Sanjaya said, Thus, I have heard this wonderful dialogue between Krishna and the high-souled Arjuna, which causes one's hair to stand on end.

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

Sanjaya said: "I heard this rare, wonderful, and soul-stirring discourse between Lord Shri Krishna and the great-souled Arjuna.

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.