Bhagavad Gita, Chapter 11, Verse 12

दिवि सूर्यसहस्रस्य भवेद्युगपदुत्थिता । यदि भाः सदृशी सा स्याद्भासस्तस्य महात्मनः

divi sūryasahasrasya bhavedyugapadutthitā | yadi bhāḥ sadṛśī sā syādbhāsastasya mahātmanaḥ

Translation

If the splendour of a thousand suns were ever to present itself at once in the sky, that would be like the splendour of that Mighty Being.

— Alladi Mahadeva Sastri

Word meanings

divi

in the sky

sūryasahasrasya

of suns, of a thousand

bhavet

were

yugapat

simultaneously

utthitā

arisen

yadi

if

bhāḥ

splendour

sadṛśī

similar

sā

that

syāt

may be

bhāsaḥ

of a glory

tasya

(of) that

mahātmanaḥ

of mahātmā

Śaṅkarācārya's commentary

In the sky: in antarikṣa or the middle loka; or in the heavenly region, which forms the third (from here). The Mighty Being: the Universal Form. — If no such thing can ever exist, then the splendour of the Universal Form excels all else.