Bhagavad Gita, Chapter 11, Verse 17
किरीटिनं गदिनं चक्रिणं च तेजोराशिं सर्वतो दीप्तिमन्तम् । पश्यामि त्वां दुर्निरीक्ष्यं समन्ताद् दीप्तानलार्कद्युतिमप्रमेयम्
kirīṭinaṃ gadinaṃ cakriṇaṃ ca tejorāśiṃ sarvato dīptimantam | paśyāmi tvāṃ durnirīkṣyaṃ samantād dīptānalārkadyutimaprameyam
Translation
I see Thee with diadem, club, and discus; a mass of splendour shining everywhere, very hard to look at, all around blazing like burning fire and sun, and immeasurable.
— Alladi Mahadeva Sastri
Word meanings
- kirīṭinam
- diadem, of him, is, him
- gadinam
- with mace
- cakriṇam
- with discus
- ca
- and
- tejorāśim
- of splendour, the mass
- sarvataḥ
- everywhere
- dīptimantam
- shining
- paśyāmi
- (I) see
- tvām
- thee
- durnirīkṣyam
- with difficulty, to be seen
- samantāt
- from everywhere
- dīptānalārkadyutim
- of (the) shining, of fire, and, of sun, and, like, glory, whose, him
- aprameyam
- immeasurable
Śaṅkarācārya's commentary
Immeasurable: whose limits cannot be fixed.