Bhagavad Gita 10.19: meaning and translation

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Krishna answers that he will tell Arjuna, best of the Kurus, of his divine glories, but only the chief ones, for there is no end to their extent.

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Bhagavad Gita 10.19

श्रीभगवानुवाच ।

हन्त ते कथयिष्यामि दिव्या ह्यात्मविभूतयः ।प्राधान्यतः कुरुश्रेष्ठ नास्त्यन्तो विस्तरस्य मे ॥

Hanta te kathayishyami divya hyatmavibhutayahPradhanyatah kurushreshtha nastyanto vistarasya me

hanta te kathayiṣyāmi divyā hyātmavibhūtayaḥ |prādhānyataḥ kuruśreṣṭha nāstyanto vistarasya me ||

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Our explanation Krishna answers that he will tell Arjuna, best of the Kurus, of his divine glories, but only the chief ones, for there is no end to their extent.

हिंदी अर्थ कृष्ण उत्तर देते हैं कि वे अर्जुन (कुरुश्रेष्ठ) को अपनी दिव्य विभूतियों के बारे में बताएँगे, पर केवल मुख्य-मुख्य, क्योंकि उनके विस्तार का अंत नहीं है।

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  1. हन्त hanta · well then (indeclinable) Dictionary: hanta, Monier-Williams 1899, p. 1288, col. 2 “an exclamation or inceptive particle”
  2. ते te · to you (pronoun, dative singular) Dictionary: yuṣmad, Monier-Williams 1899, p. 855, col. 3 “the base of the 2nd pers. pron. as used in comp.”
  3. कथयिष्यामि kathayiṣyāmi · will tell (future, 1st person singular) Dictionary: kath, Monier-Williams 1899, p. 247, col. 1 “to tell, relate, narrate, report, inform, speak about, declare”
  4. दिव्याः divyāḥ · divine (adjective (feminine), nominative plural) Dictionary: 2. divya, Monier-Williams 1899, p. 479, col. 2 “divine, heavenly, celestial”
  5. हि hi · indeed (indeclinable) Dictionary: 2. hi, Monier-Williams 1899, p. 1297, col. 3 “for, because, on account of”
  6. आत्मविभूतयः ātmavibhūtayaḥ · (Krishna's) own glories (compound (feminine), nominative plural) Dictionary: ātman, Monier-Williams 1899, p. 135, col. 1 “the individual soul, self”; vi-bhūti, Monier-Williams 1899, p. 979, col. 1 “splendour, glory, magnificence”
  7. प्राधान्यतः prādhānyataḥ · the chief ones only (indeclinable) Dictionary: prā-dhānya, Monier-Williams 1899, p. 702, col. 2 “-tas, ind. in regard to the highest object or chief matter, chiefly, mainly”
  8. कुरुश्रेष्ठ kuruśreṣṭha · O best of the Kurus (compound (masculine), vocative singular) Dictionary: kuru, Monier-Williams 1899, p. 294, col. 1 “N. of the ancestor of the Kurus”; śreṣṭha, Monier-Williams 1899, p. 1102, col. 3 “most excellent, best, first, chief”
  9. न na · not (indeclinable) Dictionary: 2. na, Monier-Williams 1899, p. 523, col. 1 “not, no, nor, neither”
  10. अस्ति asti · is (present, 3rd person singular) Dictionary: 1. as, Monier-Williams 1899, p. 117, col. 2 “to be, live, exist, be present”
  11. अन्तः antaḥ · end (noun (masculine), nominative singular) Dictionary: anta, Monier-Williams 1899, p. 42, col. 3 “end, limit, boundary, term”
  12. विस्तरस्य vistarasya · of the extent (noun (masculine), genitive singular) Dictionary: vi-stara, Monier-Williams 1899, p. 1001, col. 3 “spreading, extension, expansion”
  13. मे me · "my" (Krishna's) (pronoun, genitive singular) Dictionary: 1. mad, Monier-Williams 1899, p. 777, col. 2 “base of the first pers. pron. in the sg. number (esp. in comp.)”

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Kashinath Trimbak Telang, 1882. Public domain. Page 88.

The Deity said:

Well then, O best of Kauravas! I will state to you my own divine emanations; but (only) the chief (ones), for there is no end to the extent of my (emanations).

English translation: K. T. Telang, The Bhagavadgîtâ (The Sacred Books of the East, vol. VIII, Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1882); public domain. archive.org (page 88, scan leaf n101). Shown verbatim.
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Kashinath Trimbak Telang, 1882. Public domain. Page 88.

The Deity said:

Well then, O best of Kauravas! I will state to you my own divine emanations; but (only) the chief (ones), for there is no end to the extent of my (emanations).

English translation: K. T. Telang, The Bhagavadgîtâ (The Sacred Books of the East, vol. VIII, Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1882); public domain. archive.org (page 88, scan leaf n101). Shown verbatim.

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Annie Besant, 1895. Public domain. Page 98.

The Blessed Lord said:

Blessed be thou! I will declare to thee My divine sovereignty by its chief characteristics, O best of the Kurus; there is no end to My minute details.

English translation: Annie Besant, The Bhagavad Gîtâ, or The Lord's Song (London: Theosophical Publishing Society, 1895); public domain. archive.org (page 98, scan leaf n104). Shown verbatim.

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Swami Swarupananda, 1909 (first printed 1907). Public domain. Page 201.

The Blessed Lord said:

I shall speak to thee now, O best of the Kurus, of My Divine attributes, according to their prominence; there is no end to the manifoldness of My manifestation.

English translation: Swami Swarupananda, Srimad-Bhagavad-Gita (Mayavati: Prabuddha Bharata Press, 1909; first printed in Prabuddha Bharata, 1907–1909); public domain. archive.org (page 201, scan leaf n204). Shown verbatim.

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The translation: K. T. Telang, The Bhagavadgîtâ (The Sacred Books of the East, vol. VIII, Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1882), p. 88. Bhagavad Gita 10.19.

The translation: Annie Besant, The Bhagavad Gîtâ, or The Lord's Song (London: Theosophical Publishing Society, 1895), p. 98. Bhagavad Gita 10.19.

The translation: Swami Swarupananda, Srimad-Bhagavad-Gita (Mayavati: Prabuddha Bharata Press, 1909; first printed in Prabuddha Bharata, 1907–1909), p. 201. Bhagavad Gita 10.19.

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Sanskrit text: The Bhagavad-Gita, or The Lord's Song, with the text in Devanagari and an English translation, 1922. Meanings: written for Pujadeep and checked against the cited edition. Source and changes

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Krishna speaks this verse, in chapter 10 (Vibhuti Yoga).

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Sanskrit text: The Bhagavad-Gita, or The Lord's Song, with the text in Devanagari and an English translation, 1922. Meanings: written for Pujadeep and checked against the cited edition. See the source

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The Bhagavad-Gita, or The Lord's Song, with the text in Devanagari and an English translation (Annie Besant, G. A. Natesan & Co., Madras, 1922). Public domain. The Sanskrit on these pages was read from this printing’s page images.
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The Bhagavadgîtâ with the Sanatsugâtîya and the Anugîtâ, translated by Kâshinâth Trimbak Telang (The Sacred Books of the East, vol. VIII, ed. F. Max Müller) (Kashinath Trimbak Telang, F. Max Müller, Clarendon Press, Oxford, 1882). Public domain. Shown verbatim, as printed.
Translation
The Bhagavad Gîtâ, or The Lord's Song, translated by Annie Besant (Annie Besant, Theosophical Publishing Society, London, 1895). Public domain. Shown verbatim, as printed.
Translation
Srimad-Bhagavad-Gita, with Sanskrit Text; Paraphrase with Word-by-word Literal Translation; English Rendering and Comments, Index, &c., by the Swami Swarupananda (Himalayan Series, No. XX) (Swami Swarupananda, The Editors and Publishers, Advaita Ashrama, Mayavati, Prabuddha Bharata Press, Mayavati, Almora, Himalayas, 1909). Public domain. Shown verbatim, as printed.
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