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11.46 I wish to see you as before Arjuna speaks

किरीटिनं गदिनं चक्रहस्त मिच्छामि त्वां द्रष्टुमहं तथैव
तेनैव रूपेण चतुर्भुजेन सहस्रबाहो भव विश्वमूर्ते

kirīṭinaṁ gadinaṁ chakra-hastam
ichchhāmi tvāṁ draṣhṭum ahaṁ tathaiva
tenaiva rūpeṇa chatur-bhujena
sahasra-bāho bhava viśhva-mūrte

I wish to see you as before — crowned, bearing the club, the disc in your hand. Take on that four-armed form, thousand-armed one of universal form.

Explanation

I wish to see you as before.

Crowned, bearing the club, the disc in hand — the four-armed form.

Not the human one yet. He asks for something in between: still divine, still recognisable, and bounded. The negotiation is very carefully written.

Word by word

kirīṭinam
wearing the crown
gadinam
carrying the mace
chakra-hastam
disc in hand
ichchhāmi
I wish
tvām
you
draṣhṭum
to see
aham
I
tathā eva
similarly
tena eva
in that
rūpeṇa
form
chatuḥ-bhujena
four-armed
sahasra-bāho
thousand-armed one
bhava
be
viśhwa-mūrte
universal form