11.9

Sanskrit

एवमुक्त्वा ततो राजन् महायोगेश्वरो हरिः । दर्शयामास पार्थाय परमं रूपमैश्वरम् ॥

evam uktvā tato rājan mahāyogeśvaro hariḥ darśayāmāsa pārthāya paramaṃ rūpam aiśvaram

Translation

Having thus spoken, O King, the great Lord of Yoga, Hari, showed to Pârtha His supreme Form as Lord.

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

Explanation

The narrative frame reasserts itself: this is Sanjaya, speaking to the blind king Dhritarashtra, reporting what he is seeing on the battlefield through his own granted clairvoyance. It’s easy to lose track of, inside the vision itself, that there are two acts of “impossible sight” stacked here — Arjuna’s divine eye on the field, and Sanjaya’s narrator’s-eye relaying it all, verse by verse, to a king who cannot see any of it himself. “Rājan” (O King) is a small but pointed reminder of who’s actually listening to this account.