11.10–11
Chapter 11, Verses 10–11
अनेकवक्त्रनयनमनेकाद्भुतदर्शनम्। अनेकदिव्याभरणं दिव्यानेकोद्यतायुधम्৷৷ दिव्यमाल्याम्बरधरं दिव्यगन्धानुलेपनम्। सर्वाश्चर्यमयं देवमनन्तं विश्वतोमुखम्৷৷
anēkavaktranayanamanēkādbhutadarśanam. anēkadivyābharaṇaṅ divyānēkōdyatāyudham৷৷ divyamālyāmbaradharaṅ divyagandhānulēpanam. sarvāścaryamayaṅ dēvamanantaṅ viśvatōmukham৷৷
Translation
Verse 10
There were countless eyes and mouths, and mystic forms innumerable, with shining ornaments and flaming celestial weapons.
Verse 11
Crowned with heavenly garlands, clothed in shining garments, anointed with divine unctions, He showed Himself as the Resplendent One, Marvellous, Boundless, Omnipresent.
Translation — Purohit Swami
Commentary
Verse 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.
Verse 11
दिव्यमाल्याम्बरधरम् wearing divine garlands (necklaces) and apparel, दिव्यगन्धानुलेपनम् anointed with divine unguents, सर्वाश्चर्यमयम् the allwonderful, देवम् resplendent, अनन्तम् endless, विश्वतोमुखम् with faces on all sides. Commentary: Visvatomukham With faces on all sides, as He is the Self of all beings.Devam God. Also means resplendent.Anantam Endless. He Who is free from the three kinds of limitations, viz., DesaKalaVastuPariccheda (limitations of space, time, and thing respectively) is Anantam. He is Brahman. This philosophical concept is explained below.The pot is here. This is spacelimitatio. The pot is now here. This is timelimitation. The pot is not a cloth. This is thing(material) limitation. There is saffron in Kashmir only. This is limitation of space and thing. You can have apples only in September. This is limitation of time and thing. But Brahman is everywhere, as It is allpervading. It exists in the past, the present and the future. It dwells in all parts. Hence It is beyond these three limitations. It is therefore endless.
Commentary — Swami Sivananda
Sanskrit and transliteration of the Bhagavad Gita. Corpus compiled from the vedabase and the IIT Kanpur Gita Supersite.