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Bhagavad Gita 10.35

बृहत्साम तथा साम्नां गायत्री छन्दसामहम्।मासानां मार्गशीर्षोऽहमृतूनां कुसुमाकरः॥

bṛhatsāma tathā sāmnāṃ gāyatrī chandasāmaham |māsānāṃ mārgaśīrṣo'hamṛtūnāṃ kusumākaraḥ ||

Among the hymns, I am the Brihatsaman; among meters, I am Gayatri; among months, I am Margasirsha; among seasons, I am the flowery season.

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

Of hymns, I am Brihatsama; of meters, I am Garatri; among months, I am Margasheersha (December); and I am Spring among seasons.

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.