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Bhagavad Gita 10.24

पुरोधसां च मुख्यं मां विद्धि पार्थ बृहस्पतिम्।सेनानीनामहं स्कन्दः सरसामस्मि सागरः॥

purodhasāṃ ca mukhyaṃ māṃ viddhi pārtha bṛhaspatim |senānīnāmahaṃ skandaḥ sarasāmasmi sāgaraḥ ||

And, among the household priests of kings, O Arjuna, know Me to be the chief, Brihaspati; among the army generals, I am Skanda; among lakes, I am the ocean.

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

Among the priests, know, O Arjuna, that I am the priest Brihaspati; of generals, I am Skanda, the Commander-in-Chief, and of waters, I am the Ocean.

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 10.24 · Vidya