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Bhagavad Gita 10.27

उच्चैःश्रवसमश्वानां विद्धि माममृतोद्भवम्।ऐरावतं गजेन्द्राणां नराणां च नराधिपम्॥

uccaiḥśravasamaśvānāṃ viddhi māmamṛtodbhavam |airāvataṃ gajendrāṇāṃ narāṇāṃ ca narādhipam ||

Know Me as Ucchaisravas, born of nectar, among horses; Airavata among lordly elephants; and the king among men.

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

Know that among horses I am Pegasus, heaven-born; among the lordly elephants I am the white one, and I am the ruler among men.

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.