BG 18.74

सञ्जय उवाच
इत्यहं वासुदेवस्य पार्थस्य च महात्मनः ।
संवादमिममश्रौषमद्भुतं रोमहर्षणम् ॥
sañjaya uvāca
ity ahaṁ vāsudevasya
pārthasya ca mahātmanaḥ
saṁvādam imam aśrauṣam
adbhutaṁ roma-harṣaṇam

Word-for-word meanings

sañjayaḥ uvāca — Sañjaya said;  iti — thus;  aham — I;  aśrauṣam — have heard;  imam — this;  adbhutam — astonishing;  roma-harṣaṇam — [and] ecstatic;  saṁvādam — dialogue;  mahā-ātmanaḥ* — between the Great Selves;  vāsudevasya — Śrī Kṛṣṇa;  ca — and;  pārthasya — Arjuna.

Translation

Sañjaya said: Thus, I have heard this astonishing and ecstatic dialogue between the Supreme Self, Śrī Kṛṣṇa, and the great being, Arjuna.

Notes

* This qualifier has been applied in translation both to vāsudevasya and to pārthasya. As a qualifier of Śrī Kṛṣṇa, it is rendered as “the Supreme Self,” and as a qualifier of Arjuna, as “the great being.”

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