Bhagavad Gita · Chapter 11, verse 12
The image of a thousand suns rising at once is the Gita's best-known attempt to describe a splendour beyond words.
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दिवि सूर्यसहस्रस्य भवेद्युगपदुत्थिता ।यदि भाः सदृशी सा स्याद्भासस्तस्य महात्मनः ॥
divi sūryasahasrasya bhavedyugapadutthitā |yadi bhāḥ sadṛśī sā syādbhāsastasya mahātmanaḥ ||
If the light of a thousand suns were to rise in the sky all at once, it might be like the splendour of that great being.
यदि आकाश में एक साथ हज़ार सूर्यों का प्रकाश उदित हो जाए, तो शायद वह उस महान स्वरूप के तेज के समान हो।
आकाशात हजार सूर्यांचा प्रकाश एकाच वेळी उगवला, तर कदाचित तो त्या महात्म्याच्या तेजासारखा होईल.
In Sanskrit, sounds at word edges merge (sandhi), so a line looks like one long word. Split it to see each word and its meaning.
दिवि सूर्यसहस्रस्य भवेद्युगपदुत्थिता ।यदि भाः सदृशी सा स्याद्भासस्तस्य महात्मनः ॥
दिव्यमाल्याम्बरधरं दिव्यगन्धानुलेपनम् ।
It wore divine garlands and garments, was anointed with divine fragrances, and was full of every wonder: the shining, endless god, facing every direction.
11.13तत्रैकस्थं जगत्कृत्स्नं प्रविभक्तमनेकधा ।
There Arjuna saw the whole universe, divided in many ways, gathered together in the body of the god of gods.
The Yoga of the Vision of the Cosmic Form
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