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Bhagavad Gita 10.28

आयुधानामहं वज्रं धेनूनामस्मि कामधुक्।प्रजनश्चास्मि कन्दर्पः सर्पाणामस्मि वासुकिः॥

āyudhānāmahaṃ vajraṃ dhenūnāmasmi kāmadhuk |prajanaścāsmi kandarpaḥ sarpāṇāmasmi vāsukiḥ ||

Among weapons, I am the thunderbolt; among cows, I am the wish-fulfilling cow called Kamadhenu; I am the progenitor, the god of love; among serpents, I am Vasuki.

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

I am the thunderbolt among weapons; I am the Cow of Plenty among cows; I am Passion in those who procreate, and I am the Cobra among serpents.

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.