🪷 Bhagavad-Gītā · 11.10

Chapter 11 · विश्वरूपदर्शनयोग · Viśvarūpa-Darśana-Yoga · "The Yoga of the Universal-Form Vision" · Verse 10 of 55

अनेकवक्त्रनयनमनेकाद्भुतदर्शनम्।

अनेकदिव्याभरणं दिव्यानेकोद्यतायुधम्।।11.10।।
— Bhagavad-Gītā 11.10 · Devanāgarī root text

🪷 English Translations

5 received English translations are available for this śloka. Each voice is labelled; no single rendering is presented as the Sanskrit itself.

Shri Purohit Swami · Poetic English · 1935 edition attribution in the received data
11.10 There were countless eyes and mouths, and mystic forms innumerable, with shining ornaments and flaming celestial weapons.
Swami Sivananda · Direct prose · Divine Life Society
11.10 With numerous mouths and eyes, with numerous wonderful sights, with numerous divine ornaments, with numerous divine weapons uplifted (such a form He showed).
Swami Gambīrānanda · Word-key glosses · Advaita Ashrama · Śaṅkara-school
11.10 A form aneka-vaktra-nayanam, having many faces and eyes; aneka-adbhuta-darsanam, possessing many wonderful sights; as also aneka-divya-abharanam, adorned with numerous celestial ornaments; and divya-aneka-udyata-ayudham, holding many uplifted heavenly weapons. This whole portion is connected with the verb '(He) showed' in the earlier verse. Moreover,
Swami Ādidevānanda · Śrī-Vaiṣṇava perspective · Rāmānuja school
11.10 - 11.11 'Divyam' means resplendent. 'Anantam' (boundless) means that form is not limited by time and space because of its being the foundation of the entire universe in the past, present and future. 'Visvatomukham' means facing in all directions. This form is adorned with divine raiments, perfumes, garlands, ornaments and weapons appropriate to it. He explains the same resplendence expressed by the term 'Divyam':
Dr. S. Sankaranarayan · Academic precision · modern scholarly
11.10. That has many mouths and eyes, many wondrous sights, many heavenly ornaments, and many heavenly weapons held ready;

🪷 Hindi Translation · हिन्दी अनुवाद

Received Hindi rendering attributed in the source data to Swami Rāmsukhdās ji.

🪷 Swami Rāmsukhdās · Hindi rendering · source-data attribution
।।11.10 -- 11.11।। जिसके अनेक मुख और नेत्र हैं, अनेक तहरके अद्भुत दर्शन हैं, अनेक दिव्य आभूषण हैं, हाथोंमें उठाये हुए अनेक दिव्य आयुध हैं तथा जिनके गलेमें दिव्य मालाएँ हैं, जो दिव्य वस्त्र पहने हुए हैं, जिनके ललाट तथा शरीरपर दिव्य चन्दन, कुंकुम आदि लगा हुआ है, ऐसे सम्पूर्ण आश्चर्यमय, अनन्तरूपवाले तथा चारों तरफ मुखवाले देव-(अपने दिव्य स्वरूप-) को भगवान् ने दिखाया।

🪷 English Commentaries · The Ācārya Voices

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Swami Sivananda · Verse-by-verse word-keys with Sanskrit anchors
11.10 अनेकवक्त्रनयनम् with numerous mouthsand eyes? अनेकाद्भुतदर्शनम् with numerous wonderful sights? अनेकदिव्याभरणम् with numerous divine ornaments? दिव्यानेकोद्यतायुधम् with numerous divine weapons uplifted.Commentary Countless faces appeared there. Arjuna looked at this Cosmic Form in all its magnificence. He saw the Lord everywhere and in everything. The whole manifestation appeared as one gigantic body of the Lord. He saw the Lord as the allinall.
Swami Gambīrānanda · Advaita-school commentary (Śaṅkara tradition)
11.10 A form aneka-vaktra-nayanam, having many faces and eyes; aneka-adbhuta-darsanam, possessing many wonderful sights; as also aneka-divya-abharanam, adorned with numerous celestial ornaments; and divya-aneka-udyata-ayudham, holding many uplifted heavenly weapons. This whole portion is connected with the verb '(He) showed' in the earlier verse. Moreover,
Swami Ādidevānanda · Rāmānuja Śrī-Vaiṣṇava commentary
11.10 - 11.11 'Divyam' means resplendent. 'Anantam' (boundless) means that form is not limited by time and space because of its being the foundation of the entire universe in the past, present and future. 'Visvatomukham' means facing in all directions. This form is adorned with divine raiments, perfumes, garlands, ornaments and weapons appropriate to it. He explains the same resplendence expressed by the term 'Divyam':
Dr. S. Sankaranarayan · Modern academic scholarship
11.10 Sri Abhinavagupta did not comment upon this sloka.
Swami Chinmayānanda · Chinmaya Mission · modern Vedantic teaching
।।11.10।। See commentary under 11.11

🪷 Hindi Vyākhyā · हिन्दी व्याख्या

Received Hindi vyākhyā attributed in the source data to Swami Rāmsukhdās ji.

🪷 Swami Rāmsukhdās · Hindi vyākhyā · source-data attribution
।।11.10।। व्याख्या--'अनेकवक्त्रनयनम्'--विराट्रूपसे प्रकट हुए भगवान्के जितने मुख और नेत्र दीख रहे हैं, वे सब-के-सब दिव्य हैं। विराट्रूपमें जितने प्राणी दीख रहे हैं, उनके मुख, नेत्र, हाथ, पैर आदि सबकेसब अङ्ग विराट्रूप भगवान्के हैं। कारण कि भगवान् स्वयं ही विराट्रूपसे प्रकट हुए हैं।

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