Verse 11.44

तस्मात्प्रणम्य प्रणिधाय कायं

प्रसादये त्वामहमीशमीड्यम् ।

पितेव पुत्रस्य सखेव सख्युः

प्रियः प्रियायार्हसि देव सोढुम् ॥

11.44

Transliteration

tasmātpraṇamya praṇidhāya kāyaṃ

prasādaye tvāmahamīśamīḍyam |

piteva putrasya sakheva sakhyuḥ

priyaḥ priyāyārhasi deva soḍhum ||

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

Translation

Therefore, bowing down, prostrating my body, I crave Thy forgiveness, O adorable Lord. As a father forgives his son, a friend his (dear) friend, a lover his beloved, even so shouldst Thou forgive me, O God.

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Word by word

therefore
bowing
laying down
the body

I seek the grace
of you
I
the lord
adorable

a father
like
of a son
a friend
like
of a friend

a lover
of the beloved
you should
O god
to bear with

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

Explanation

Arjuna prostrates himself and asks for Krishna's grace. Then he names three relationships, each with its own kind of forgiveness: a father bearing with a son, a friend with a friend, a lover with the beloved. The images are intimate rather than formal. Arjuna does not ask to be pardoned by a distant judge but to be borne with in love. The three bonds cover the range of human closeness, and many devotional traditions have taken them as models for relating to the divine. The verse shows how, after the vision, the relationship deepens rather than ends.