Sanskrit · Devanagari
पवनः पवतामस्मि रामः शस्त्रभृतामहम्। झषाणां मकरश्चास्मि स्रोतसामस्मि जाह्नवी ॥
Sanskrit · IAST
pavanaḥ pavatāmasmi rāmaḥ śastrabhṛtāmaham jhaṣāṇāṃ makaraścāsmi srotasāmasmi jāhnavī
English witness
Kashinath Trimbak Telang, 1882I am the wind among those that blow. I am Rāma among those that wield weapons. Among fishes I am Makara and among streams the Jāhnavī. Of created things I am the beginning and the end and the middle also
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Śaṅkarācārya
।।10.31।। --,पवनः वायुः पवतां पावयितृ़णाम् अस्मि। रामः शस्त्रभृताम् अहं शस्त्राणां धारयितृ़णां दाशरथिः रामः अहम्। झषाणां मत्स्यादीनां मकरः नाम जातिविशेषः अहम्। स्रोतसां स्रवन्तीनाम् अस्मि जाह्नवी गङ्गा।।
11275104b2d1…Rāmānuja
10.31 Of moving things, namely, of things whose nature is to move, I am the wind. Of those who bear weapons, I am Rama. Here the ality of bearing weapons is the Vibhuti, as no other sense is possible. Aditya etc., being individual selves, constitute attributes of the Lord, who is their Self as they constitute His body. Therefore they stand in the same position of the attribute as that of bearing weapons.
49211792a261…Swami Sivananda
10.31 पवनः the wind? पवताम् among purifiers or the speeders? अस्मि (I) am? रामः Rama? शस्त्रभृताम् among wielders of weapons (warriors)? अहम् I? झषाणाम् among fishes? मकरः Makara (shark)? च and? अस्मि (I) am? स्रोतसाम् among streams? अस्मि (I) am? जाह्नवी the Ganga.Commentary The holy river Ganga (spelt Ganges in English) was swallowed by Jahnu when she was being brought down by Bhagiratha from heaven. Hence the name Jahnavi for Ganga.
bdd595d50684…These supplied texts come from the pinned VedicScriptures dataset under GPL-3.0 and await independent alignment review.