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Sanskrit

इत्यहं वासुदेवस्य पार्थस्य च महात्मनः । संवादमिममश्रौषमद्भुतं रोमहर्षणम् ॥ ७४ ॥

ity ahaṃ vāsudevasya pārthasya ca mahātmanaḥ saṃvādam imam aśrauṣam adbhutaṃ roma-harṣaṇam

Translation

I heard this marvellous dialogue of Vâsudeva, and of the great-souled Partha, causing my hair to stand on end.

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

Explanation

The narrative frame reasserts itself: Sanjaya, who has been silently relaying every word of this dialogue since being asked “what did they do” back at 1.1, speaks in his own voice, confessing that hearing it made his hair stand on end. Everything since chapter 1 has technically been Sanjaya’s report to the blind king Dhritarashtra, and the text now remembers that frame explicitly, right as the philosophical content proper comes to a close.