Shrimad Bhagavad-gita
by Narayana Gosvami | 2013 | 327,105 words
The Bhagavad-gita Verse 11.6, English translation, including the Vaishnava commentaries Sarartha-varsini-tika, Prakashika-vritti and Rasika-ranjana (excerpts). This is verse Verse 11.6 from the chapter 11 called “Vishvarupa-darshana-yoga (beholding the Lord’s Universal Form)”
Verse 11.6
Sanskrit text, Unicode transliteration, Word-for-word and English translation of verse 11.6:
पश्यादित्यान् वसून् रुद्रान् अश्विनौ मरुतस् तथा ।
बहून्य् अदृष्ट-पूर्वाणि पश्याश्चर्याणि भारत ॥ ६ ॥paśyādityān vasūn rudrān aśvinau marutas tathā |
bahūny adṛṣṭa-pūrvāṇi paśyāścaryāṇi bhārata || 6 ||paśya–see; ādityān–the twelve Ādityas; vasūn–the eight Vasus; rudrān–the eleven Rudras; aśvinau–the twin Aśvinīs; marutaḥ–the forty-nine Maruts; tathā–and; bahūni–many; adṛṣṭa-pūrvāṇi–that you have never seen before; paśya–behold; āścaryāṇi–astonishing forms; bhārata–O descendant of Bharata.
O Bhārata, behold the twelve Ādityas, the eight Vasus, the eleven Rudras, the two Aśvinī-kumāras, the forty-nine Maruts and so many other astonishing forms, unwitnessed by anyone before.
Commentary: Sārārtha-Varṣiṇī Prakāśikā-vṛtti
(By Śrīla Bhaktivedānta Nārāyaṇa Gosvāmī Mahārāja; the explanation that illuminates the commentary named Sārārtha-varṣiṇī)
Here, Śrī Bhagavān’s address-ing Arjuna as Bhārata is significant, because Arjuna was born in the dynasty of the great saintly King Bharata, who is highly pious and a pure devotee of the Lord. Arjuna is therefore extremely religious and one-pointed in his devotion to Bhagavān. Thus he is qualified to see this form of Bhagavān, heretofore unseen.