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11.16 No end, no middle, no beginning Arjuna speaks

अनेकबाहूदरवक्त्रनेत्रं पश्यामि त्वां सर्वतोऽनन्तरूपम्
नान्तं न मध्यं न पुनस्तवादिं पश्यामि विश्वेश्वर विश्वरूप

aneka-bāhūdara-vaktra-netraṁ
paśhyāmi tvāṁ sarvato ’nanta-rūpam
nāntaṁ na madhyaṁ na punas tavādiṁ
paśhyāmi viśhveśhvara viśhva-rūpa

I see you everywhere, of endless form, with many arms and bellies and mouths and eyes. I see no end in you, no middle and no beginning, lord of all.

Explanation

No end, no middle, no beginning.

Many arms, bellies, mouths, eyes — I see no end in you.

He is reporting the failure of his own faculties as he goes. What he says is not that the form is infinite but that he cannot find its edges, which is a description of looking rather than of the thing.

Word by word

aneka
infinite
bāhu
arms
udara
stomachs
vaktra
faces
netram
eyes
paśhyāmi
I see
tvām
you
sarvataḥ
in every direction
ananta-rūpam
inifinite forms
na antam
without end
na
not
madhyam
middle
na
no
punaḥ
again
tava
your
ādim
beginning
paśhyāmi
I see
viśhwa-īśhwara
The Lord of the universe
viśhwa-rūpa
universal form