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Bhagavad Gita 10.30

प्रह्लादश्चास्मि दैत्यानां कालः कलयतामहम्।मृगाणां च मृगेन्द्रोऽहं वैनतेयश्च पक्षिणाम्॥

prahlādaścāsmi daityānāṃ kālaḥ kalayatāmaham |mṛgāṇāṃ ca mṛgendro'haṃ vainateyaśca pakṣiṇām ||

And I am Prahlada among the demons, I am Time among reckoners, I am the lion among beasts, and Vainateya (Garuda) among birds.

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

And I am the devotee Prahlada among the heathens; of Time I am the Eternal Present; I am the Lion among beasts and the Eagle among birds.

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 10.30 · SatsangVidya