Sanskrit · Devanagari
रूपं महत्ते बहुवक्त्रनेत्रं महाबाहो बहुबाहूरुपादम्। बहूदरं बहुदंष्ट्राकरालं दृष्ट्वा लोकाः प्रव्यथितास्तथाहम् ॥
Sanskrit · IAST
rūpaṃ mahatte bahuvaktranetraṃ mahābāho bahubāhūrupādam bahūdaraṃ bahudaṃṣṭrākarālaṃ dṛṣṭvā lokāḥ pravyathitāstathāham
English witness
Kashinath Trimbak Telang, 1882with many mouths and eyes with many arms thighs and feet with many stomachs and fearful with many jaws all people and I likewise are much alarmed O you of mighty arms!
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Śaṅkarācārya
।।11.23।। --,रूपं महत् अतिप्रमाणं ते तव बहुवक्त्रनेत्रं बहूनि वक्त्राणि मुखानि नेत्राणि चक्षूंषि च यस्मिन् तत् रूपं बहुवक्त्रनेत्रम्? हे महाबाहो? बहुबाहूरुपादं बहवो बाहवः ऊरवः पादाश्च यस्मिन् रूपे तत् बहुबाहूरुपादम्? किञ्च? बहूदरं बहूनि उदराणि यस्मिन्निति बहूदरम्? बहुदंष्ट्राकरालं बह्वीभिः दंष्ट्राभिः करालं विकृतं तत् बहुदंष्ट्राकरालम्? दृष्ट्वा रूपम् ईदृशं लोकाः लौकिकाः प्राणिनः प्रव्यथिताः प्रचलिताः भयेन तथा अहमपि।।तत्रेदं कारणम् --,
33177b110b57…Rāmānuja
11.23 Beholding Your mighty form, as described earlier, which is an exceedingly terrifying figure because of the large teeth - all the worlds, described earlier and containing three kinds of beings, friendly, antagonistic and neutral, and I myself too have become panic-stricken.
7bb217d2a57a…Swami Sivananda
11.23 रूपम् form? महत् immeasurable? ते Thy? बहुवक्त्रनेत्रम् with many mouths and eyes? महाबाहो O,mightyarmed? बहुबाहूरुपादम् with many arms? thighs and feet? बहूदरम् with many stomachs. बहुदंष्ट्राकरालम् fearful with many teeth? दृष्ट्वा having seen? लोकाः the worlds? प्रव्यथिताः are terrified? तथा also? अहम् I.Commentary Lokah The worlds -- all living beings in the world. Here is the cause of my fear. Arjuna describes below the nature of the Cosmic Form which has caused terror in his heart.
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