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BG 11.23

Bhagavad Gītā · Viśvarūpa Darśana Yoga

रूपं महत्ते बहुवक्त्रनेत्रं महाबाहो बहुबाहूरुपादम् | बहूदरं बहुदंष्ट्राकरालं दृष्ट्वा लोकाः प्रव्यथितास्तथाहम् ||११-२३||

rūpaṃ mahatte bahuvaktranetraṃ mahābāho bahubāhūrupādam . bahūdaraṃ bahudaṃṣṭrākarālaṃ dṛṣṭvā lokāḥ pravyathitāstathāham ||11-23||

Linguistic facts

Meter · chandasVidyut

unnamed meter · 11+11+11+11 syllables

scansion (laghu/guru)
GpaṃGmaLhaGtteGbaLhuLvaGktraLneGtraṃG
maLGGhoGbaLhuLGGruLGdamL
baLGdaLraṃGbaLhuLdaṃGṣṭrāGkaLGlaṃG
dṛGṣṭvāGloGkāḥGpraGvyaLthiLGstaLthāGhamL
Sandhi · pada-pāṭhaVidyut
रूउपम्महत्तेबहुवक्त्रनेत्रम्महाबाहोबहुबाहूरुपादम्बहुउदरम्बहुदंष्ट्राकरालम्दृष्ट्वालोकअस्प्रव्यथितास्तथाहम्
Word-by-word morphologyVidyut
14 words analyzed
  • रूरुnominal · nominative dual masculine
  • उपम्upamवप्nominal · accusative singular masculine
  • महत्mahatमह्nominal · nominative singular neuter
  • तेteताnominal · nominative dual feminine
  • बहुवक्त्रनेत्रम्bahuvaktranetramunknown
  • महाबाहोmahābāhoमहाबाहुnominal · vocative singular masculine
  • बहुबाहूरुपादम्bahubāhūrupādamunknown
  • बहुbahuबहुindeclinable
  • उदरम्udaramउदरnominal · nominative singular neuter
  • बहुदंष्ट्राकरालम्bahudaṃṣṭrākarālamunknown
  • दृष्ट्वाdṛṣṭvāदृश्indeclinable
  • लोकlokaलोक्verb · imperative second singular active (√lok)
  • अस्asnominal · nominative singular masculine
  • प्रव्यथितास्तथाहम्pravyathitāstathāhamunknown
Recitationtool-derived · pending

Facts come from Vidyut (deterministic), never the model. Automated segmentation isn’t hand-verified — gaps are shown, not guessed.

Translations

Swami SivanandaRelay

11.23 Having seen Thy immeasurable form with many mouths and eyes, O mighty-armed, with many arms, thighs and feet, with many stomachs and fearful with many teeth the worlds are terrified and so am I.

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8 more attributed translations
A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami PrabhupadaRelay

O mighty-armed one, all the planets with their demigods are disturbed at seeing Your great form, with its many faces, eyes, arms, thighs, legs and bellies and Your many terrible teeth; and as they are disturbed, so am I.

Dr.S.SankaranarayanRelay

11.23. O Mighty-armed One ! Having seen Your mighty form that has many faces and eyes, many arms, thighs and feet, and many bellies, and is terrible with many tusks; the worlds are frightened and so also myself.

Shri Purohit SwamiRelay

11.23 Seeing Thy stupendous Form, O Most Mighty, with its myriad faces, its innumerable eyes and limbs and terrible jaws, I myself and all the worlds are overwhelmed with awe.

Sri Abhinav GuptaRelay

11.23 Sri Abhinavagupta did not comment upon this sloka.

Sri RamanujaRelay

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.

Sri ShankaracharyaRelay

11.23 Mahabaho, O mighty-armed One; drstva, seeing; te, Your; mahat, immence, very vast; upam, form of this kind; bahu-vaktra-netram, with many mouths and eyes; bahu-bahu-uru-padam, having many arms, thighs and feet; and further, bahu-udaram, with many bellies; and bahu-damstra-karalam, fearful with many teeth; lokah, the creatures in the world; are pravya-thitah, struck with terror; tatha, and so also; am even aham, I. The reason of that is this:

Swami AdidevanandaRelay

11.23 Beholding Your great form with many mouths and eyes, with many arms, thights, and feet, witth many stomachs and terrible with many teeth, the worlds tremble, and I too ake, O mighty-armed.

Swami GambiranandaRelay

11.23 O mighty-armed One, seeing Your immense form with many mouths and eyes, having numerous arms, thighs and feet, with many bellies, and fearful with many teeth, the creatures are struck with terror, and so am I.

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