Swami Swarupananda, Srimad Bhagavad Gita (1909)
[4]If the splendour of a thousand suns were to rise up simultaneously in the sky, that would be like the splendour of that Mighty Being.
BG 11.12
दिवि सूर्यसहस्रस्य भवेद्युगपदुत्थिता | यदि भाः सदृशी सा स्याद्भासस्तस्य महात्मनः ||१२||
divi sūrya-sahasrasya bhaved yugapad utthitā | yadi bhāḥ sadṛśī sā syād bhāsas tasya mahātmanaḥ || 12 ||
"If a thousand suns blazed simultaneously — that splendor might resemble the glory of that Great Being!"
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William Quan Judge, The Bhagavad Gita (1890)
[6]The glory and amazing splendor of this mighty Being may be likened to the radiance shed by a thousand suns rising together into the heavens.
Sir Edwin Arnold, The Song Celestial (1885)
[7]Suddenly within the skies / Sunburst of a thousand suns / Flooding earth with beams undeemed-of, / Then might be that Holy One's / Majesty and radiance dreamed of!