11.6

Sanskrit

पश्यादित्यान्वसून्रुद्रानश्विनौ मरुतस्तथा । बहून्यदृष्टपूर्वाणि पश्याश्चर्याणि भारत ॥

paśyādityān vasūn rudrān aśvinau marutas tathā bahūny adṛṣṭapūrvāṇi paśyāścaryāṇi bhārata

Translation

Behold the Âdityas, the Vasus, the Rudras, the two Ashvins and also the Maruts; behold many marvels never seen ere this, O Bhârata.

Annie Besant · The Bhagavad-Gita, translated by Annie Besant (4th ed., 1922) — Wikisource · Public Domain

Explanation

The imperative “paśya” (behold) is repeated three times across this single verse — a rhetorical drumbeat that will keep recurring through the whole vision. The content is a roll call of the Vedic pantheon (Âdityas, Vasus, Rudras, Ashvins, Maruts) — the point isn’t the specific census so much as the claim underneath it: every deity Arjuna already knows how to name is about to turn out to be contained inside the person he’s been talking to.