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Bhagavad Gita 10.21

आदित्यानामहं विष्णुर्ज्योतिषां रविरंशुमान्।मरीचिर्मरुतामस्मि नक्षत्राणामहं शशी॥

ādityānāmahaṃ viṣṇurjyotiṣāṃ raviraṃśumān |marīcirmarutāmasmi nakṣatrāṇāmahaṃ śaśī ||

Among the twelve Adityas, I am Vishnu; among luminaries, the radiant sun; among the seven or forty-nine Maruts, I am Marichi; among stars, I am the moon.

Translation by Swami Sivananda · Public domain in India (translator d. 1963)

Of all the creative powers, I am the Creator; of luminaries, the Sun; of winds, the Whirlwind; and of planets, the Moon.

Translation by Shri Purohit Swami · Public domain in India (translator d. 1941)

Our plain-language meaning of this verse is waiting for scholar review.

Edition: Common 700-verse recension. Arjuna's opening question in chapter 13, absent from that recension, is kept as 13.0.

Transliteration in IAST, generated from the Devanagari text.

Source: Sanskrit text via gita/gita (Unlicense), from the Gita Supersite, IIT Kanpur. Sanskrit text public domain.

Bhagavad Gita 10.21 · SatsangVidya