How Arjuna Addresses Krishna in the Bhagavad Gita
How Arjuna Addresses Kṛṣṇa in the Gītā
In XI.41 Arjuna begs forgiveness for (among other things) having used familiar language in addressing the Lord: ‘Kṛṣṇa’ ‘Yādava’ (descendent of the Yadu tribe, equivalent to ‘Scotty’, etc.) This, and the change after seeing the Universal Form, are illustrated by the terms in the Gītā itself.
I.21
Acyuta = firm one (also lit. not leaking away, not falling, etc.)
22
Kṛṣṇa (lit. black)
31
Keśava (lit. hairy)
32
Govinda – cow-herd
Kṛṣṇa
35
Madhu-sūdana – slayer of demon Madhu
36
Janārdana – jana (men) ardana (distributer); excitant, stimulator, nuisance, gadfly
37
Mādhava: related to spring, vernal; descendant of Madhu
39
Janārdana
41
Kṛṣṇa
Vārṣṇiya – Vṛṣṇi clansman
II.4
Madhu-sūdana
34
Keśava
III.1
Janārdana
31
Vāṛṣṇiya
V.1
Kṛṣṇa
VI.33
Madhu-sūdana
34
Kṛṣṇa
37
Kṛṣṇa
39
Kṛṣṇa
VIII.1
‘Best of men’, Puruṣottama (no Śankara comment: not supreme Spirit here)
X.13
Supreme Brahman, supreme Light, supreme Purifier; eternal divine Puruṣa, primal God, unborn Omnipresent
X.14
Keśava
Lord (bhagavān)
15
Puruṣottama (here supreme Spirit), source of beings, Lord of beings, God of gods, ruler of the world
16
all-pervading
17
Yogin
Lord
18
Janārdana
XI.2
Lotus-eyed (kamalapattrākṣa)
3
Supreme Lord (parameśvara), supreme Spirit
15
Description of Universal Form
24
O Viṣṇu
25
O Lord of Gods, abode of universe
30
O Viṣṇu
31
O Lord Supreme
36
Hṛṣikeśa (lord of the senses)
37
Mighty Being, primal Cause, infinite Being, Lord of gods, abode of universe, imperishable, Being-not-being, supreme Lord of gods
38
Primal God, ancient Puruṣa, supreme abode of all, knower and knowable and supreme abode, all-pervading, of infinite forms
40
Infinite in power, infinite in daring
42
Acyuta
43
Greatest Father of the world, etc.
guru (only time this word used in Gītā for spiritual teacher, though Bhīṣma and Droṇa are gurus of strategy, archery, etc.
Here in XI.43 it refers to the Universal Form which terrifies Arjuna and which he asks to be removed.
45
God of gods, abode of universe
46
Thousand-armed, Universal Form
XIV.21
Prabhu (lord)
XVII.1
Kṛṣṇa (!)
XVIII.1
Great-armed
Hṛṣikeśa
Slayer of demon Keśin
73
Acyut