Verse 11.16

अनेकबाहूदरवक्त्रनेत्रं

पश्यामि त्वां सर्वतोऽनन्तरूपम् ।

नान्तं न मध्यं न पुनस्तवादिं

पश्यामि विश्वेश्वर विश्वरूप ॥

11.16

Transliteration

anekabāhūdaravaktranetraṃ

paśyāmi tvāṃ sarvato'nantarūpam |

nāntaṃ na madhyaṃ na punastavādiṃ

paśyāmi viśveśvara viśvarūpa ||

By Sanskrit System · Machine draft · @indic-transliteration/sanscript 1.3.3

Translation

I see Thee of boundless form on every side with many arms, stomachs, mouths and eyes: neither the end nor the middle nor also the beginning do I see, O Lord of the universe, O Cosmic Form.

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Word by word

with many arms bellies mouths eyes

I see
you
on every side
of endless forms

no
end
no
middle
nor
again
your
beginning

do I see
O lord of the universe
O universal form

By Sanskrit System · Machine draft · claude-opus-5-5 · 2026-11-08

Explanation

Arjuna sees Krishna on every side, with countless arms, bellies, mouths and eyes, a form without limit. He looks for an edge, a centre or a starting point and finds none. The words echo the previous chapter, where Krishna declared himself the beginning, middle and end of beings; now Arjuna discovers that in the cosmic form these cannot even be located. He addresses Krishna as viśvarūpa, the one whose form is the universe, the term that gives this vision its usual name. The verse captures the vertigo of seeing something that has no outline.