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11.6 Wonders never seen before Krishna speaks

पश्यादित्यान्वसून्रुद्रानश्िवनौ मरुतस्तथा
बहून्यदृष्टपूर्वाणि पश्याऽश्चर्याणि भारत

paśhyādityān vasūn rudrān aśhvinau marutas tathā
bahūny adṛiṣhṭa-pūrvāṇi paśhyāśhcharyāṇi bhārata

Behold the sons of Aditi, the Vasus, the Rudras, the twin Ashvins and the winds. Behold many wonders never seen before.

Explanation

Wonders never seen before.

The sons of Aditi, the Vasus, the Rudras, the Ashvins, the winds — whole classes of gods named as things inside the form.

The scale is being established by enumeration before any image arrives, which is how chapter 10 worked too. Here the list is of what is contained rather than of what is best.

Word by word

paśhya
behold
ādityān
the (twelve) sons of Aditi
vasūn
the (eight) Vasus
rudrān
the (eleven) Rudras
aśhvinau
the (twin) Ashvini Kumars
marutaḥ
the (forty-nine) Maruts
tathā
and
bahūni
many
adṛiṣhṭa
never revealed
pūrvāṇi
before
paśhya
behold
āśhcharyāṇi
marvels
bhārata
Arjun, scion of the Bharatas