Chapter XVIII · Śloka 74
Sañjaya uvāca
इत्यहं वासुदेवस्य पार्थस्य च महात्मनः ।
संवादमिममश्रौषमद्भुतं रोमहर्षणम् ॥
संवादमिममश्रौषमद्भुतं रोमहर्षणम् ॥
ity ahaṃ vāsudevasya pārthasya ca mahātmanaḥ |
saṃvādam imam aśrauṣam adbhutaṃ roma-harṣaṇam ||
saṃvādam imam aśrauṣam adbhutaṃ roma-harṣaṇam ||
Thus have I heard this wondrous dialogue between Vāsudeva and the great-souled Pārtha, causing the hair to stand on end.
Sañjaya, who has heard the entire Gita through Vyāsa's gift of divine vision, closes with his own witness. The word roma-harṣaṇam — 'causing the hair to bristle' — attests that the transmission of sacred teaching produces direct somatic experience even in the careful, detached narrator.
