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Bhagavad Gita 10.23

रुद्राणां शङ्करश्चास्मि वित्तेशो यक्षरक्षसाम्।वसूनां पावकश्चास्मि मेरुः शिखरिणामहम्॥

rudrāṇāṃ śaṅkaraścāsmi vitteśo yakṣarakṣasām |vasūnāṃ pāvakaścāsmi meruḥ śikhariṇāmaham ||

And among the Rudras, I am Sankara; among the Yakshas and Rakshasas, the Lord of Wealth (Kubera); among the Vasus, I am Pavaka (Fire); and among the seven mountains, I am Meru.

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

Among forces of vitality, I am the life; I am Mammon to the heathens and the godless; I am the energy in fire, earth, wind, sky, heaven, sun, moon, and planets; and among mountains, I am Mount Meru.

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 10.23 · SatsangVidya