Verse 11.3

एवमेतद्यथात्थ त्वमात्मानं परमेश्वर ।

द्रष्टुमिच्छामि ते रूपमैश्वरं पुरुषोत्तम ॥

11.3

Transliteration

evametadyathāttha tvamātmānaṃ parameśvara |

draṣṭumicchāmi te rūpamaiśvaraṃ puruṣottama ||

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

Translation

(Now) O Supreme Lord, as Thou hast thus described Thyself, O Supreme Person, I wish to see Thy divine form.

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Word by word

so
this
as
you declare
you
yourself
O supreme lord

to see
I wish
your
form
divine
O supreme person

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

Explanation

Arjuna affirms that everything Krishna has said about himself is true. He is not doubting. Yet he wants to see the aiśvara rūpa, the sovereign or godly form, the shape of the power he has heard described. The wish is natural: hearing and seeing are different ways of knowing, and someone who has been moved by an account longs to witness its subject. The verse is the hinge of the chapter. Everything that follows, the vision, the terror, the praise and the return to the familiar form, flows from this single request.