🪷 Bhagavad-Gītā · 10.27

Chapter 10 · विभूतियोग · Vibhūti-Yoga · "The Yoga of Krishna's Manifestations" · Verse 27 of 42

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🪷 English Translations

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Shri Purohit Swami · Poetic English · 1935 · public domain · Cosmo Press tradition

10.27 Know that among horses I am Pegasus, the heaven-born; among the lordly elephants I am the White one, and I am the Ruler among men.

Swami Sivananda · Direct prose · Divine Life Society

10.27 Know Me as Ucchaisravas born of nectar, among horses; among lordly elephants (I am) the Airavata; and, among men, the king.

Swami Gambīrānanda · Word-key glosses · Advaita Ashrama · Śaṅkara-school

10.27 Asvanam, among horses; viddhi, know; mam, Me; to be the horse named Uccaihsravas; amrta-udbhavam, born of nectar-born when (the sea was) churned (by the gods) for nectar. Airavata, the son of Iravati, gajendranam, among the Lordly elephants; 'know Me to be so' remains understood. And naranam, among men; know Me as the naradhipam, King of men.

Swami Ādidevānanda · Śrī-Vaiṣṇava perspective · Rāmānuja school

10.26 - 10.29 Of trees I am Asvattha which is worthy of worship. Of celestial seers I am Narada. Kamadhuk is the divine cow. I am Kandarpa, the cause of progeny. Sarpas are single-headed snakes while Nagas are many-headed snakes. Aatic creatures are known as Yadamsi. Of them I am Varuna. Of subdures, I am Yama, the son of the sun-god.

Dr. S. Sankaranarayan · Academic precision · modern scholarly

10.27. Of the horses, you should know Me to be the nectar-born Uccaihsravas (Indra's horse); of the best elephants, the Airavata (Indra's elephant); and of the men, their king.

🪷 Hindi Translation · हिन्दी अनुवाद

For the Hindi-aware seer · Pūjya Swami Rāmsukhdās ji's translation · a high-readability modern Hindi rendering · Gītā-Press Gorakhpur tradition. (→ Full Mahāpurusha-detail page for the 102-year-living Sādhaka-Sañjīvanī Mahātmā.)

🪷 Swami Rāmsukhdās · Sādhaka-Sañjīvanī tradition · Gītā-Press Gorakhpur · highest modern Hindi reading

।।10.27।। घोड़ोंमें अमृतके साथ समुद्रसे प्रकट होनेवाले उच्चैःश्रवा नामक घोड़ेको, श्रेष्ठ हाथियोंमें ऐरावत नामक हाथीको और मनुष्योंमें राजाको मेरी विभूति मानो।

🪷 English Commentaries · The Ācārya Voices

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Swami Sivananda · Verse-by-verse word-keys with Sanskrit anchors

10.27 उच्चैःश्रवसम् Ucchaisravas? अश्वानम् among horses? विद्धि know? माम् Me? अमृतोद्भवम् born of nectar?,ऐरावतम् Airavata? गजेन्द्राणाम् among lordly elephants? नराणाम् among men? च and? नराधिपम् the king.Commentary Nectar was obtained by the gods by churning the ocean of milk. Ucchaisravas is the name of the royal horse which was born in that ocean of milk when it was churned for the nectar.Airavatam The offspring of Iravati? the elephant of Indra born at the time when the ocean of milk was churned.

Swami Gambīrānanda · Advaita-school commentary (Śaṅkara tradition)

Swami Ādidevānanda · Rāmānuja Śrī-Vaiṣṇava commentary

Dr. S. Sankaranarayan · Modern academic scholarship

10.27 See Comment under 10.42

Swami Chinmayānanda · Chinmaya Mission · modern Vedantic teaching

।।10.27।। सुर और असुरों के द्वारा क्षीरसागर का मन्थन करके अमृत प्राप्त करने की पौराणिक कथा सुप्रसिद्ध है। इस मन्थन की प्रकिया के समय पंखयुक्त शक्तिशाली और समर्थ ऐसा एक अश्व प्रकट हुआ था? जिसका नाम उच्चैश्रवा था? तथा ऐरावत नाम का एक श्वेत गज भी प्रकट हुआ था। इन दोनों को देवताओं के राजा इन्द्र को उपहार के रूप में भेंट किया गया था। पौराणिक वर्णन के अनुसार इस प्रकार की कुल तेरह आकर्षक वस्तुएं उस मन्थन में प्रकट हुई थीं।

🪷 Hindi Vyākhyā · हिन्दी व्याख्या

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🪷 Swami Rāmsukhdās · Sādhaka-Sañjīvanī · Hindi vyākhyā · the modern bilingual anchor

।।10.27।। व्याख्या--'उच्चैःश्रवसमश्वानां विद्धि माममृतोद्भवम्'--समुद्रमन्थनके समय प्रकट होनेवाले चौदह रत्नोंमें उच्चैःश्रवा घोड़ा भी एक रत्न है। यह इन्द्रका वाहन और सम्पूर्ण घोड़ोंका राजा है। इसलिये भगवान्ने इसको अपनी विभूति बताया है।

🪷 Place in the Bhagavad-Gītā

This is verse 27 of 42 in Chapter 10 · Vibhūti-Yoga (The Yoga of Krishna's Manifestations)
Chapter theme: BG 10.20-42 · "Among X, I am Y" · the foundational vibhūti enumeration
Ṣaṭka grouping: TAT-Ṣaṭka (BG 7-12 · the Lord)
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⭐ Mahābhārata anchor: this verse is also MBh 6.32.27 (Bhīṣma-Parva · the BG in its full narrative home)

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