# Bhagavad Gita 11.31

**Canonical reference:** `gita.11.31`  
**Speaker:** Arjuna  
**Corpus version:** gita-1.0.0-rc.1

## Sanskrit (Devanagari)

आख्याहि मे को भवानुग्ररूपो
नमोऽस्तु ते देववर प्रसीद।
विज्ञातुमिच्छामि भवन्तमाद्यं
न हि प्रजानामि तव प्रवृत्तिम् ॥

## IAST

ākhyāhi me ko bhavānugrarūpo namo.astu te devavara prasīda
vijñātumicchāmi bhavantamādyaṃ na hi prajānāmi tava pravṛttim

## English — Kashinath Trimbak Telang, 1882

Tell me who you are in this fierce form. Salutations be to thee, O chief of the gods! Be gracious. I wish to know you, the primeval, one, for I do not understand your actions.

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