11.5
Chapter 11, Verse 5
श्री भगवानुवाच पश्य मे पार्थ रूपाणि शतशोऽथ सहस्रशः। नानाविधानि दिव्यानि नानावर्णाकृतीनि च৷৷
śrī bhagavānuvāca paśya mē pārtha rūpāṇi śataśō.tha sahasraśaḥ. nānāvidhāni divyāni nānāvarṇākṛtīni ca৷৷
Translation
Lord Shri Krishna replied: Behold, O Arjuna! My celestial forms, by hundred and thousands, various in kind, in colour and in shape.
Translation — Purohit Swami
Commentary
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.
Commentary — Swami Sivananda
Sanskrit and transliteration of the Bhagavad Gita. Corpus compiled from the vedabase and the IIT Kanpur Gita Supersite.