Sanskrit · Devanagari
किरीटिनं गदिनं चक्रिणं च तेजोराशिं सर्वतो दीप्तिमन्तम्। पश्यामि त्वां दुर्निरीक्ष्यं समन्ताद् दीप्तानलार्कद्युतिमप्रमेयम् ॥
Sanskrit · IAST
kirīṭinaṃ gadinaṃ cakriṇaṃ ca tejorāśiṃ sarvato dīptimantam paśyāmi tvāṃ durnirīkṣyaṃ samantād dīptānalārkadyutimaprameyam
English witness
Kashinath Trimbak Telang, 1882I do not see your end or middle or beginning. I see you bearing a coronet and a mace and a discus—a mass of glory brilliant on all sides difficult to look at having on all sides the effulgence of a blazing fire or sun and indefinable.
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Śaṅkarācārya
।।11.17।। --,किरीटिनं किरीटं नाम शिरोभूषणविशेषः तत् यस्य अस्ति सः किरीटी तं किरीटिनम्? तथा गदिनं गदा अस्य विद्यते इति गदी तं गदिनम्? तथा चक्रिणं चक्रम् अस्य अस्तीति चक्री तं चक्रिणं च? तेजोराशिं तेजःपुञ्जं सर्वतोदीप्तिमन्तं सर्वतोदीप्तिः अस्य अस्तीति सर्वतोदीप्तिमान्? तं सर्वतोदीप्तिमन्तं पश्यामि त्वां दुर्निरीक्ष्यं दुःखेन निरीक्ष्यः दुर्निरीक्ष्यः तं दुर्निरीक्ष्यं समन्तात् समन्ततः सर्वत्र दीप्तानलार्कद्युतिम् अनलश्च अर्कश्च अनलार्कौ दीप्तौ अनलार्कौ दीप्तानलार्कौ तयोः दीप्तानलार्कयोः द्युतिरिव द्युतिः तेजः यस्य तव स त्वं दीप्तानलार्कद्युतिः? तं त्वां दीप्तानलार्कद्युतिम् अप्रमेयं न प्रमेयम् अशक्यपरिच्छेदम् इत्येतत्।।इत एव ते योगशक्तिदर्शनात् अनुमिनोमि --,
137a16eb5c3d…Rāmānuja
11.17 I behold you a mass of light shining everywhere, hard to look at, blazing like a burning fire and the sun. You, who are identifiable with Your divine diadem, mace and discus, are indefinable and immeasurable.
1b9ca597f6a1…Swami Sivananda
11.17 किरीटिनम् one with diadem? गदिनम् with club? चक्रिणम् with discus? च and? तेजोराशिम् a mass of radiance? सर्वतः everywhere? दीप्तिमन्तम् shining? पश्यामि (I) see? त्वाम् Thee? दुर्निरीक्ष्यम् very hard to look at? समन्तात् all round? दीप्तानलार्कद्युतिम् blazing like burning fire and sun? अप्रमेयम् immeasurable.Commentary Kiritam is a special ornament for the head? the crown.Arjuna had worshipped the Lord as having a crown? club and discus and the Lord showed him the same form now. He is in all forms and He is beyond all forms as the transcendental Reality. Who can comprehend His GloryTejorasim A mass of splendour that cannot be perceived without the inner divine eye of intuition.Aprameyam Immeasurable? whose limits cannot be fixed.I infer from this vision of Thy power of Yoga that Thu art the Imperishable? etc.
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