Sanskrit
यच्चावहासार्थमसत्कृतोऽसि विहारशय्यासनभोजनेषु । एकोऽथवाऽप्यच्युत तत्समक्षम् तत्क्षामये त्वामहमप्रमेयम् ॥
yac cāvahāsārtham asatkṛto'si vihāraśayyāsanabhojaneṣu eko'thavāpy acyuta tatsamakṣam tat kṣāmaye tvām aham aprameyam
Translation
If jesting I irreverence showed to Thee, At play, reposing, sitting or at meals, Alone, O sinless One, or with my friends, Forgive my error, O Thou boundless One.
Annie Besant · The Bhagavad-Gita, translated by Annie Besant (4th ed., 1922) — Wikisource · Public Domain
Explanation
The apology gets almost domestically specific — play, rest, sitting, meals, alone or in company — an inventory of the small, unguarded moments of an actual friendship rather than a formal offense. That specificity is the point: Arjuna isn’t confessing to one dramatic act of disrespect, he’s realizing that ordinary intimacy itself was, in retrospect, a kind of presumption. Addressing him here as “aprameyam,” immeasurable, in the same breath as recalling shared meals, holds both truths open at once without resolving which one was the mistake — the friendship, or not knowing what the friendship actually was.