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Bhagavad Gita 10.29

अनन्तश्चास्मि नागानां वरुणो यादसामहम्।पितृ़णामर्यमा चास्मि यमः संयमतामहम्॥

anantaścāsmi nāgānāṃ varuṇo yādasāmaham |pitṛṇāmaryamā cāsmi yamaḥ saṃyamatāmaham ||

I am Ananta among the Nagas; I am Varuna among water-deities; Aryaman among the Manes; I am Yama among the governors.

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

I am the king-python among snakes, I am the aqueous principle among those that live in water, I am the father of fathers, and among rulers I am death.

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 10.29 · SatsangVidya