Text 13 | Part III
The Universal Form
549
yadi bhāḥ sadṛśī sā syād bhāsas tasya mahātmanaḥ
divi —in the sky;  sūrya —sun;  sahasrasya —of many thousands;  bhavet —there were;  yugapat —simultaneously;  utthitā —present;  yadi —if;  bhāḥ —light;  sadṛśī —like that;  sā —that;  syāt —may be;  bhāsaḥ —effulgence;  tasya —there is;  mahātmanaḥ —of the great Lord.
TRANSLATION
If hundreds of thousands of suns rose up at once into the sky, they might resemble the effulgence of the Supreme Person in that universal form.
PURPORT
What Arjuna saw was indescribable, yet Sañjaya is trying to give a mental picture of that great revelation to Dhṛtarāṣṭra. Neither Sañjaya nor Dhṛtarāṣṭra were present, but Sañjaya, by the grace of Vyāsa, could see whatever happened. Thus he now compares the situation, as far as it can be understood, to an imaginable phenomenon (i.e. thousands of suns).
TEXT 13
तत्रैकस्थं जगत्कृत्स्नं प्रविभक्तमनेकधा । 
    अपश्यद्देवदेवस्य शरीरे पाण्डवस्तदा ॥१३॥
tatraikasthaṁ jagat kṛtsnaṁ pravibhaktamanekadhā apaśyad deva-devasya śarīre pāṇḍavas tadā
tatra —there;  ekastham —one place;  jagat —universe;  kṛtsnam —completely;  pravibhaktam —divided in;  anekadhā —many kinds;  apaśyat —could see;  deva-devasya —of the Supreme Personality of Godhead;  śarīre —in the universal form;  pāṇḍavaḥ —Arjuna;  tadā —at that time.
TRANSLATION
At that time Arjuna could see in the universal form of the Lord the unlimited expansions of the universe situated in one place although divided into many, many thousands.