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Bhagavad Gita 7.9

पुण्यो गन्धः पृथिव्यां च तेजश्चास्मि विभावसौ।जीवनं सर्वभूतेषु तपश्चास्मि तपस्विषु॥

puṇyo gandhaḥ pṛthivyāṃ ca tejaścāsmi vibhāvasau |jīvanaṃ sarvabhūteṣu tapaścāsmi tapasviṣu ||

I am the sweet fragrance in the earth and the brilliance in the fire, the life in all beings, and I am the austerity of ascetics.

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

I am the fragrance of the earth, the brilliance of fire, the life force in all beings, and the austerity of ascetics.

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.