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Bhagavad Gita 9.19

तपाम्यहमहं वर्षं निगृह्णाम्युत्सृजामि च।अमृतं चैव मृत्युश्च सदसच्चाहमर्जुन॥

tapāmyahamahaṃ varṣaṃ nigṛhṇāmyutsṛjāmi ca |amṛtaṃ caiva mṛtyuśca sadasaccāhamarjuna ||

As the sun, I give heat; I withhold and send forth the rain; I am immortality and also death, existence and non-existence, O Arjuna.

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

I am the heat of the sun, I release and withhold the rain. I am death and immortality; I am being and non-being.

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.