Verse 11.50

इत्यर्जुनं वासुदेवस्तथोक्त्वा

स्वकं रूपं दर्शयामास भूयः ।

आश्वासयामास च भीतमेनं

भूत्वा पुनः सौम्यवपुर्महात्मा ॥

11.50

Transliteration

ityarjunaṃ vāsudevastathoktvā

svakaṃ rūpaṃ darśayāmāsa bhūyaḥ |

āśvāsayāmāsa ca bhītamenaṃ

bhūtvā punaḥ saumyavapurmahātmā ||

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

Translation

Sanjaya said Having thus spoken to Arjuna, Krishna again showed His own form and the great Soul (Krishna), assuming His gentle form, consoled him (Arjuna) who was terrified.

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Word by word

thus
to Arjuna
Vasudeva
so
having spoken

his own
form
showed
again

consoled
and
frightened
him

becoming
again
of gentle form
the great soul

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

Explanation

Sanjaya narrates the return. Krishna, called Vasudeva, shows his own form again, and the great-souled one, becoming once more gentle in shape, comforts the frightened Arjuna. The word svakam, his own, has been read in different ways: as the four-armed form Arjuna asked for, as the familiar human form, or as both in sequence. The word saumya, gentle or pleasant, is the opposite of ghora, terrible. The scene closes the vision with an act of consolation. The god of the cosmic form is also the friend who calms a trembling companion.