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Bhagavad Gita 18.77

तच्च संस्मृत्य संस्मृत्य रूपमत्यद्भुतं हरेः।विस्मयो मे महान् राजन् हृष्यामि च पुनः पुनः॥

tacca saṃsmṛtya saṃsmṛtya rūpamatyadbhutaṃ hareḥ |vismayo me mahān rājan hṛṣyāmi ca punaḥ punaḥ ||

And, remembering again and again that most wonderful form of Hari, I am filled with great wonder, O King; and I rejoice again and again.

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

As I recall again and again the exceeding beauty of the Lord, I am filled with amazement and joy.

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 18.77 · SatsangVidya