Sanskrit · Devanagari
आख्याहि मे को भवानुग्ररूपो नमोऽस्तु ते देववर प्रसीद। विज्ञातुमिच्छामि भवन्तमाद्यं न हि प्रजानामि तव प्रवृत्तिम् ॥
Sanskrit · IAST
ākhyāhi me ko bhavānugrarūpo namo.astu te devavara prasīda vijñātumicchāmi bhavantamādyaṃ na hi prajānāmi tava pravṛttim
English witness
Kashinath Trimbak Telang, 1882Tell me who you are in this fierce form. Salutations be to thee, O chief of the gods! Be gracious. I wish to know you, the primeval, one, for I do not understand your actions.
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Śaṅkarācārya
।।11.31।। --,आख्याहि कथय मे मह्यं कः भवान् उग्ररूपः क्रूराकारः? नमः अस्तु ते तुभ्यं हे देववर देवानां प्रधान? प्रसीद प्रसादं कुरु। विज्ञातुं विशेषेण ज्ञातुम् इच्छामि भवन्तम् आद्यम् आदौ भवम् आद्यम्? न हि यस्मात् प्रजानामि तव त्वदीयां प्रवृत्तिं चेष्टाम्।।श्रीभगवानुवाच --,
19b2652fcf40…Rāmānuja
11.31 Who are You of this terrible form, what do You intend to do? I wish to know. For I do not know Your intended actions. Tell me this. Salutations to You, O Supreme God! Salutations to You, Lord of everything! Say with what object and for what purpose You have assumed this form of the destroyer. Assume a pleasing form. The Lord, the charioteer of Arjuna, being estioned, 'What is Your intention in assuming a terrible form when revealing Your cosmic sovereignty out of overflowing love for Your proteges?' - He spoke to the following effect: The manifestation of a terrible form by Me is to point out that I Myself am operative for the annihilation of the entire world of kings headed by the sons of Dhrtarastra, without any effort on your (Arjuna's) part. Reminding Arjuna of this, is to goad him to fight:
f77a1c9f41c2…Swami Sivananda
11.31 आख्याहि tell? मे me? कः who (art)? भवान् Thou? उग्ररूपः fierce in form? नमः salutation? अस्तु be? ते to Thee? देववर O God Supreme? प्रसीद have mercy? विज्ञातुम् to know? इच्छामि (I) wish? भवन्तम् Thee? आद्यम् the original Being? न not? हि indeed? प्रजानामि (I) know? तव Thy? प्रवृत्तिम् doing.No Commentary.
c8f0f62d43e8…These supplied texts come from the pinned VedicScriptures dataset under GPL-3.0 and await independent alignment review.