11.19 The moon and sun your eyes Arjuna speaks
अनादिमध्यान्तमनन्तवीर्य मनन्तबाहुं शशिसूर्यनेत्रम्
पश्यामि त्वां दीप्तहुताशवक्त्रम् स्वतेजसा विश्वमिदं तपन्तम्
anādi-madhyāntam ananta-vīryam
ananta-bāhuṁ śhaśhi-sūrya-netram
paśhyāmi tvāṁ dīpta-hutāśha-vaktraṁ
sva-tejasā viśhvam idaṁ tapantam
Without beginning, middle or end, of endless power, of endless arms, the moon and sun your eyes — I see you, your mouth a blazing fire of offering, scorching this world with your own radiance.
Explanation
The moon and sun your eyes.
Endless power, endless arms — and a mouth that is a blazing fire of offering, scorching this world.
The image turns here. The mouth was decorative in 11.10; now it is a sacrificial fire, and the world is what is being burnt in it.
Word by word
- anādi-madhya-antam
- without beginning, middle, or end
- ananta-vīryam
- of infinite power
- ananta-bāhum
- with infinite arms
- śhaśhi-sūrya-netram
- the moon and the sun as eyes
- paśhyāmi
- I see
- tvām
- you
- dīpta-hutāśha-vaktram
- with a mouth of blazing fire
- sva-tejasā
- by your own radiance
- viśhvam
- the universe
- idam
- this
- tapantam
- scorching; burning
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