​​​​Which aspect of the universal form did Duryodhana see?

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So the question is that it is said that Duryodhana also saw a partial manifestation of the universal form that Arjuna saw on the battlefield of Kurukshetra when was this and what was the partial form actually this Vishwaroopa refers to the time when Krishna came as Shanti Doodh and Duryodhana tried to arrest Krishna so at that time Krishna just laughed oh Duryodhana want to arrest me just arrest me come and Krishna manifested a huge form so blinding that everybody just fell back in fear and horror and they all got overwhelmed so that was the time there is a detailed description of the universal form given how the Devatas were on the shoulders of Krishna and his sides his body everywhere they were there so this was the time when Duryodhana saw the form now when Krishna revealed the universal form to Arjuna at that time he says he says he says that here you will see the whole world and you will see whatever else you want to see also so this is 11.5678 when he is describing the universal form so the point of that verse is that Krishna shows Arjuna the universal form not only in his pervasion of space but also in expansion in time so the universe basically has two things Einstein talked about space time space is length width height and then there is time so the universal form at one level shows Krishna’s pervasion of space I don’t see any beginning any middle or end it’s all pervading that is the universal form at one level but whatever else you want to see I will show also what does it mean naturally when a warrior is fighting a war warrior wants to know whether I will be winning or I will be losing so Krishna shows him the future and that future is shown through the Kaala Rupa the Kaala Rupa it’s actually if you look at it carefully Arjuna tells Krishna please show me universal form that’s verses 1 to 4 of the 11th chapter in verses 5 to 8 Krishna tells Arjuna I am going to show you the universal form and then Sanjay describes the universal form from verses 9 to 13 14th verse Arjuna’s reaction is described and Arjuna from 15th verse onwards till the 31st verse describes what he is seeing and right in the beginning he identifies this is the universal form he says I am seeing the Vishwa Rupa but then the same Arjuna in the 31st verse asks he says who are you and just the previous verse he says he is referring to it as Vishnu he says so he is saying this is Vishnu and he is asking who are you so what is the meaning of this question now if I meet someone and I tell Aniruddha Prabhu who are you it doesn’t make any sense if I am telling his name why am I asking who are you so what this means is if I know someone but I am seeing a completely different feature of that person now I know someone to be a very ordinary gentle person suddenly they start speaking like a scholar who are you he asks like that so like that Arjuna knows about the universal form the universal form has been described in scripture and Arjuna knows about it and he is seeing it but within the universal form he sees the Kaal Rupa the form of destruction and in that form he sees how the Kauravas are entering into the mouth so I am seeing Dhritarashtra’s sons and all the warriors they are all entering into the mouth so this he has not seen before when Krishna showed Arjuna the Duryodhana the Vishwa Rupa he showed how he pervades the universe but the time aspect how they are going to be destroyed that was not shown earlier so this is what the special feature was shown by Krishna to Arjuna and that was not shown by Krishna to Duryodhana and