Bhagavad Gita, Chapter 11, Verse 5
श्रीभगवानुवाच । पश्य मे पार्थ रूपाणि शतशोऽथ सहस्रशः । नानाविधानि दिव्यानि नानावर्णाकृतीनि च
śrībhagavānuvāca | paśya me pārtha rūpāṇi śataśo'tha sahasraśaḥ | nānāvidhāni divyāni nānāvarṇākṛtīni ca
Translation
See, O son of Pṛthā, My heavenly forms, by hundreds and thousands, of different sorts, and of various colours and shapes.
— Alladi Mahadeva Sastri
Word meanings
- paśya
- behold
- me
- my
- pārtha
- O Pārtha
- rūpāṇi
- forms
- śataśaḥ
- hundredfold
- atha
- and
- sahasraśaḥ
- thousandfold
- nānāvidhāni
- many, modes, whose, them
- divyāni
- divine
- nānāvarṇākṛtīni
- many, colors, forms, whose, them
- ca
- and
Śaṅkarācārya's commentary
Heavenly: supernatural. By hundreds and thousands: innumerable. Colours: such as blue, green and the like. Shapes: arrangements of parts.