11.30 You lick up all the worlds Arjuna speaks

लेलिह्यसे ग्रसमानः समन्ता ल्लोकान्समग्रान्वदनैर्ज्वलद्भिः
तेजोभिरापूर्य जगत्समग्रं भासस्तवोग्राः प्रतपन्ति विष्णो

lelihyase grasamānaḥ samantāl
lokān samagrān vadanair jvaladbhiḥ
tejobhir āpūrya jagat samagraṁ
bhāsas tavogrāḥ pratapanti viṣhṇo

You lick up and devour all the worlds on every side with your flaming mouths. Your terrible light fills the whole world with burning, Vishnu.

Explanation

You lick up all the worlds.

lelihyase — the verb is a tongue moving over something. Your terrible light fills the whole world with burning.

It is the most physical verb in the chapter, and it is the last thing Arjuna says before he asks the question. The description has run out of anywhere else to go.

Word by word

lelihyase: you are licking
grasamānaḥ: devouring
samantāt: on all sides
lokān: worlds
samagrān: all
vadanaiḥ: with mouths
jvaladbhiḥ: blazing
tejobhiḥ: by effulgence
āpūrya: filled with
jagat: the universe
samagram: all
bhāsaḥ: rays
tava: your
ugrāḥ: fierce
pratapanti: scorching
viṣhṇo: Lord Vishnu