🪷 Bhagavad-Gītā · 11.5

Chapter 11 · विश्वरूपदर्शनयोग · Viśvarūpa-Darśana-Yoga · "The Yoga of the Universal-Form Vision" · Verse 5 of 55

श्री भगवानुवाच

पश्य मे पार्थ रूपाणि शतशोऽथ सहस्रशः।

नानाविधानि दिव्यानि नानावर्णाकृतीनि च।।11.5।।
— Bhagavad-Gītā 11.5 · Devanāgarī root text
🪷 Vidhyamitra Darśana
Paśya Me Pārtha Rūpāṇi · Behold My Forms
Krishna invites Arjuna to behold His universal-form · the foundational verse for the Viśvarūpa-Darśana page.
Themes: viśvarūpa · darśana · universal-form

🪷 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
11.5 Lord Shri Krishna replied: Behold, O Arjuna! My celestial forms, by hundred and thousands, various in kind, in colour and in shape.
Swami Sivananda · Direct prose · Divine Life Society
11.5 The Blessed Lord said Behold, O Arjuna, forms of Mine, by the hundreds and thousands, of different sorts, divine, and of various colours and shapes.
Swami Gambīrānanda · Word-key glosses · Advaita Ashrama · Śaṅkara-school
11.5 O son of Prtha, pasya, behold; me, My; rupani, forms; satasah, in (their) hundreds; atha, and; sahasrasah, in thousands, i.e. in large numbers. And they are nana-vidhani, of different kinds; divyani, celestial, supernatural; and nana-varna-akrtini, of various colours and shapes-forms which have different (nana) colours (varna) such as blue, yellow, etc. as also (different) shapes (akrtayah), having their parts differently arranged.
Swami Ādidevānanda · Śrī-Vaiṣṇava perspective · Rāmānuja school
11.5 The Lord said Behold My forms which are the foundation of all, hundreds upon thousands, varied and possessing manifold modes. They are divine, i.e., supernatural. They are multi-formed and multi-coloured like white, black etc. And they are of varied configurations. Behold that form!
Dr. S. Sankaranarayan · Academic precision · modern scholarly
11.5. The Bhagavat said Behold, O son of Prtha, My divine forms in hundreds and in thousands and of varied nature and of varied colours and varied shapes.

🪷 Hindi Translation · हिन्दी अनुवाद

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

🪷 Swami Rāmsukhdās · Hindi rendering · source-data attribution
।।11.5।। श्रीभगवान् बोले -- हे पृथानन्दन ! अब मेरे अनेक तरहके, अनेक अनेक वर्णों और आकृतियोंवाले सैकड़ों-हजारों दिव्यरूपोंको तू देख।

🪷 English Commentaries · The Ācārya Voices

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Swami Sivananda · Verse-by-verse word-keys with Sanskrit anchors
11.5 पश्य behold? मे My? पार्थ O Partha? रूपाणि forms? शतशः by hundreds? अथ and? सहस्रशः by thousands? नानाविधानि of different sorts? दिव्यानि divine? नानावर्णाकृतीनि of various colours and shapes? च and.Commentary Divyani Divine supernatural.Satasah? Sahasrasah By the hundreds and thousands -- countless.O Arjuna? I want you to behold the Cosmic Form. All beings and entities are there. The fat and the lean? the short and the tall? the red and the black? the active and the passive? the rich and the poor? the intelligent and the dull? the healthy and the sick? the noisy and the silent? those that are awake? those that are asleep? the beautiful and the ugly? and all grades of beings with their distinctive marks are all there. The blueness of the sky? the yellowness of the silk? the redness of the twilight? the blackness of the coal? the whiteness of the snow? and the greenness of the leaves will be seen by you. You will also behold the objects of various shapes.
Swami Gambīrānanda · Advaita-school commentary (Śaṅkara tradition)
11.5 O son of Prtha, pasya, behold; me, My; rupani, forms; satasah, in (their) hundreds; atha, and; sahasrasah, in thousands, i.e. in large numbers. And they are nana-vidhani, of different kinds; divyani, celestial, supernatural; and nana-varna-akrtini, of various colours and shapes-forms which have different (nana) colours (varna) such as blue, yellow, etc. as also (different) shapes (akrtayah), having their parts differently arranged.
Swami Ādidevānanda · Rāmānuja Śrī-Vaiṣṇava commentary
11.5 The Lord said Behold My forms which are the foundation of all, hundreds upon thousands, varied and possessing manifold modes. They are divine, i.e., supernatural. They are multi-formed and multi-coloured like white, black etc. And they are of varied configurations. Behold that form!
Dr. S. Sankaranarayan · Modern academic scholarship
11.5 Sri Abhinavagupta did not comment upon this sloka.
Swami Chinmayānanda · Chinmaya Mission · modern Vedantic teaching
।।11.5।। यदि समस्त आभूषण का मूल तत्त्व स्वर्ण है? तो विश्व का प्रत्येक आभूषण समष्टि स्वर्ण में उपलब्ध होना चाहिए। आभूषण में स्वर्ण को देखना अपेक्षत सरल है? क्योंकि वह इन्द्रियों के द्वारा किया जाने वाला दर्शन? है अर्थात् वह इन्द्रियगोचर है। परन्तु नाना आकार प्रकार तथा वर्णों के समस्त आभूषणों को समष्टि स्वर्ण में देख पाना अधिक कठिन है? क्योंकि वह बुद्धि द्वारा दिया जाने वाला दर्शन है अर्थात बुद्धिगम्य दर्शन है।इस बात को ध्यान में रखकर भगवान् के कथन को पढ़ने पर उनका अभिप्राय स्वत स्पष्ट हो जाता है। मेरे शतश और सहस्रश नाना प्रकार आकार तथा वर्णों के अलौकिक रूपों को देखो। भगवान् श्रीकृष्ण को अपना विराट् स्वरूप धारण करने की आवश्यकता नहीं थी क्योंकि अर्जुन को केवल इतना ही करना था कि अपने समक्ष स्थित रूप को वह देखे। परन्तु दुर्भाग्य से? द्रष्टव्य रूप को देखने के लिए उपयुक्त दर्शन का उपकरण उसके पास नहीं था? और इसलिए? अर्जुन उन सबको नहीं देख सका? जो भगवान् श्रीकृष्ण में पहले से ही विद्यमान था।सुदूर स्थित कोई नक्षत्र या किसी अन्य वस्तु को देखने के लिए दूरदर्शी यन्त्र का उपयोग किया जाता है। परन्तु उस यन्त्र की अक्षरेखा पर होने मात्र से वह वस्तु दिखाई नहीं दे सकती। उसे देखने के लिये दूरदर्शी यन्त्र को समायोजित करना पड़ता है? जिससे कि वह वस्तु सूक्ष्म निरीक्षक के दृष्टिपथ में आ जाये। इसी प्रकार श्रीकृष्ण ने स्वयं को विराट् रूप में परिवर्तित नहीं किया? परन्तु अर्जुन को केवल आन्तरिक समायोजन करने में सहायता प्रदान की जिससे कि वह भगवान् श्रीकृष्ण में विद्यमान विश्वरूप का अवलोकन कर सके। इसीलिये? भगवान् कहतें हैं कि? देखो। वे इस श्लोक में उन दर्शनीय वस्तुओं को गिनाते हैं।वे दिव्य रूप कौनसे हैं अगले श्लोक में बताते हैं

🪷 Hindi Vyākhyā · हिन्दी व्याख्या

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

🪷 Swami Rāmsukhdās · Hindi vyākhyā · source-data attribution
।।11.5।। व्याख्या--'पश्य मे पार्थ रूपाणि शतशोऽथ सहस्रशः'--अर्जुनकी संकोचपूर्वक प्रार्थनाको सुनकर भगवान् अत्यधिक प्रसन्न हुए; अतः अर्जुनके लिये 'पार्थ' सम्बोधनका प्रयोग करते हुए कहते हैं कि तू मेरे रूपोंको देख। रूपोंमें भी तीन-चार नहीं, प्रत्युत सैकड़ों-हजारों रूपोंको देख अर्थात् अनगिनत रूपोंको देख। भगवान्ने जैसे विभूतियोंके विषय कहा है कि मेरी विभूतियोंका अन्त नहीं आ सकता, ऐसे ही यहाँ भगवान्ने,अपने रूपोंकी अनन्तता बतायी है।

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