Verso 11.46

किरीटिनं गदिनं चक्रहस्तं

इच्छामि त्वां द्रष्टुमहं तथैव ।

तेनैव रूपेण चतुर्भुजेन

सहस्रबाहो भव विश्वमूर्ते ॥

11.46

Traslitterazione

kirīṭinaṃ gadinaṃ cakrahastaṃ

icchāmi tvāṃ draṣṭumahaṃ tathaiva |

tenaiva rūpeṇa caturbhujena

sahasrabāho bhava viśvamūrte ||

Di Sanskrit System · Bozza automatica · @indic-transliteration/sanscript 1.3.3

Traduzione

I desire to see Thee as before, crowned, bearing a mace, with the discus in hand, in Thy former form only, having four arms, O thousand-armed, Cosmic Form (Being).

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Parola per parola

crowned
bearing a mace
discus in hand

I wish
you
to see
I
as before
just

in that
very
form
four armed

O thousand armed one
become
O universal form

Di Sanskrit System · Bozza automatica · claude-opus-5-5 · 2026-11-08

Spiegazione

Arjuna specifies the form he wants: crowned, holding mace and discus, with four arms. This is the traditional image of Vishnu, and it has puzzled readers, since in the epic Krishna normally appears to Arjuna in two-armed human form. Some readers understand the request as asking first for a gracious divine form before the fully human one; others take the four-armed form as Krishna's own true appearance, which Arjuna had perhaps glimpsed before. Either way, the contrast is sharp: Arjuna addresses the thousand-armed universal form and asks it to become the four-armed one he can approach.