# Bhagavad Gita 9.17

**Canonical reference:** `gita.9.17`  
**Speaker:** Krishna  
**Corpus version:** gita-1.0.0-rc.1

## Sanskrit (Devanagari)

पिताहमस्य जगतो माता धाता पितामहः।
वेद्यं पवित्रमोंकार ऋक्साम यजुरेव च ॥

## IAST

pitāhamasya jagato mātā dhātā pitāmahaḥ
vedyaṃ pavitramoṃkāra ṛksāma yajureva ca

## English — Kashinath Trimbak Telang, 1882

the mother the creator the grandsire the thing to be known the means of sanctification the syllable Om the Ṛk Sāman and Yajus also

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