Bhagavad Gita, Chapter 11, Verse 16
अनेकबाहूदरवक्त्रनेत्रं पश्यामि त्वां सर्वतोऽनन्तरूपम् । नान्तं न मध्यं न पुनस्तवादिं पश्यामि विश्वेश्वर विश्वरूप
anekabāhūdaravaktranetraṃ paśyāmi tvāṃ sarvato'nantarūpam | nāntaṃ na madhyaṃ na punastavādiṃ paśyāmi viśveśvara viśvarūpa
Translation
I see Thee of boundless form on every side with multitudinous arms, stomachs, mouths and eyes; neither Thy end nor the middle nor the beginning do I see, O Lord of the Universe, O Universal Form.
— Alladi Mahadeva Sastri
Word meanings
- anekabāhūdaravaktranetram
- many, arms, and, stomachs, and, mouths, and, eyes, and, whose, him
- paśyāmi
- (I) see
- tvām
- thee
- sarvataḥ
- everywhere
- anantarūpam
- endless, forms, whose, him
- na
- not
- antam
- end
- na
- not
- madhyam
- middle
- na
- not
- punaḥ
- again
- tava
- thy
- ādim
- origin
- paśyāmi
- (I) see
- viśveśvara
- of universe, O Lord
- viśvarūpa
- universe, form, whose, him
Śaṅkarācārya's commentary
Middle: what lies between two extremities.