13.14 Hands and eyes everywhere Krishna speaks
सर्वतः पाणिपादं तत्सर्वतोऽक्षिशिरोमुखम्
सर्वतः श्रुतिमल्लोके सर्वमावृत्य तिष्ठति
sarvataḥ pāṇi-pādaṁ tat sarvato ’kṣhi-śhiro-mukham
sarvataḥ śhrutimal loke sarvam āvṛitya tiṣhṭhati
Hands and feet everywhere, eyes, heads and faces everywhere, hearing everywhere — it stands enclosing everything in the world.
Explanation
Hands and feet everywhere, eyes and faces everywhere.
It stands enclosing everything in the world.
The image is deliberately excessive and it is the one chapter 11 will turn into a vision Arjuna cannot bear to look at. Here it is a sentence; there it is shown to him, and the difference is most of the book's drama.
Word by word
- sarvataḥ
- everywhere
- pāṇi
- hands
- pādam
- feet
- tat
- that
- sarvataḥ
- everywhere
- akṣhi
- eyes
- śhiraḥ
- heads
- mukham
- faces
- sarvataḥ
- everywhere
- śhruti-mat
- having ears
- loke
- in the universe
- sarvam
- everything
- āvṛitya
- pervades
- tiṣhṭhati
- exists
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