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Bhagavad Gita 15.13

गामाविश्य च भूतानि धारयाम्यहमोजसा।पुष्णामि चौषधीः सर्वाः सोमो भूत्वा रसात्मकः॥

gāmāviśya ca bhūtāni dhārayāmyahamojasā |puṣṇāmi cauṣadhīḥ sarvāḥ somo bhūtvā rasātmakaḥ ||

Permeating the earth, I support all beings with My energy; and having become the watery moon, I nourish all herbs.

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

I enter this world and animate all My creatures with My vitality; and by My cool moonbeams, I nourish the plants.

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.