11.17 Hard to look at Arjuna speaks
किरीटिनं गदिनं चक्रिणं च तेजोराशिं सर्वतोदीप्तिमन्तम्
पश्यामि त्वां दुर्निरीक्ष्यं समन्ता द्दीप्तानलार्कद्युतिमप्रमेयम्
kirīṭinaṁ gadinaṁ chakriṇaṁ cha
tejo-rāśhiṁ sarvato dīptimantam
paśhyāmi tvāṁ durnirīkṣhyaṁ samantād
dīptānalārka-dyutim aprameyam
I see you crowned, bearing club and disc, a mass of light blazing everywhere — hard to look at, radiant on all sides as burning fire and sun, immeasurable.
Explanation
Hard to look at.
durnirīkṣyam — difficult to see, painful to face. Crowned, bearing club and disc, blazing on all sides.
The first admission of distress, and it is buried in a verse of praise. From here the praise and the difficulty are the same sentences.
Word by word
- kirīṭinam
- adorned with a crown
- gadinam
- with club
- chakriṇam
- with discs
- cha
- and
- tejaḥ-rāśhim
- abode of splendor
- sarvataḥ
- everywhere
- dīpti-mantam
- shining
- paśhyāmi
- I see
- tvām
- you
- durnirīkṣhyam
- difficult to look upon
- samantāt
- in all directions
- dīpta-anala
- blazing fire
- arka
- like the sun
- dyutim
- effulgence
- aprameyam
- immeasurable
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