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18.74 My hair stands on end Sanjaya speaks

इत्यहं वासुदेवस्य पार्थस्य च महात्मनः
संवादमिममश्रौषमद्भुतं रोमहर्षणम्

ity ahaṁ vāsudevasya pārthasya cha mahātmanaḥ
saṁvādam imam aśhrauṣham adbhutaṁ roma-harṣhaṇam

So I have heard this wonderful dialogue between Krishna and the great-souled Arjuna, and my hair stands on end.

Explanation

My hair stands on end.

Sanjaya, speaking again — and using the same phrase the text used for Arjuna at 1.29 and 11.14.

The narrator has been listening the whole time. Whatever happened between those two men in the chariot, someone else was changed by overhearing it.

Word by word

sañjayaḥ uvācha
Sanjay said
iti
thus
aham
I
vāsudevasya
of Shree Krishna
pārthasya
Arjun
cha
and
mahā-ātmanaḥ
the noble hearted soul
saṁvādam
conversation
imam
this
aśhrauṣham
have heard
adbhutam
wonderful
roma-harṣhaṇam
which causes the hair to stand on end