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18.77Sanjaya
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तच्च संस्मृत्य संस्मृत्य रूपमत्यद्भुतं हरेः ।विस्मयो मे महान्राजन्हृष्यामि च पुनः पुनः ॥

tac ca saṃsmṛtya saṃsmṛtya rūpam atyadbhutaṃ hareḥ |vismayo me mahān rājan hṛṣyāmi ca punaḥ punaḥ ||

तत् · tat
that
संस्मृत्य · saṃsmṛtya
remembering
रूपम् · rūpam
the form
अत्यद्भुतम् · atyadbhutam
most wondrous
हरेः · hareḥ
of Hari (Krishna)
मे · me
my
महान् · mahān
great
राजन् · rājan
O king
हृष्यामि · hṛṣyāmi
I rejoice
पुनः पुनः · punaḥ punaḥ
again and again

And remembering again and again that most wondrous form of Hari, great is my amazement, O king, and I rejoice again and again.

Original plain-language translation

From dialogue to vision: Sanjaya recollects the cosmic form of Chapter 11, and wonder overtakes him. Hearing ripens into seeing in memory. The Gita closes not with doctrine but with amazement and joy — the proper ends of theology.

Reader's notes (original)