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Adhyāyas / Vibhūti Yogaḥ / verse 37

Mūla — the verse

Gita Press numbering
वृष्णीनां वासुदेवोऽस्मि पाण्डवानां धनंजयः। मुनीनामप्यहं व्यासः कवीनामुशना कविः
vṛiṣhṇīnāṁ vāsudevo ’smi pāṇḍavānāṁ dhanañjayaḥ munīnām apyahaṁ vyāsaḥ kavīnām uśhanā kaviḥ
Anuṣṭubh

Translation

Swami Gambhīrānanda · follows Śaṅkara-bhāṣya

Of the Vrsnis, I am Vasudeva; of the Pandavas, Dhananjaya (Arjuna). Of the wise, I am Vyasa; of the omniscient, the omniscient Usanas.

हिन्दी अनुवाद — Swami Tejomayānanda

मैं वृष्णियों में वासुदेव हूँ और पाण्डवों में धनंजय, मैं मुनियों में व्यास और कवियों में उशना कवि हूँ।।

Pronunciation — Vaamshii

from Vaamshii
वृष् णीनाँव् वासु देवोऽस्मि
पाण् डवा नान् धनञ् जयः
मुनी नामप् यहँव् व्यासः
कवी नामुश ना कविः
॥ ३७ ॥
Read each split group as one breath-unit; hyphens join pādas kept whole for the meter or a compound word. Symbols: # upadhmānīya (visarga before p/ph), % jihvāmūlīya (visarga before k/kh), ऽ avagraha (an elided a). Full method →

Word by word

padārtha
vṛiṣhṇīnāmamongst the descendants of Vrishni
vāsudevaḥKrishna, the son of Vasudev
asmiI am
pāṇḍavānāmamongst the Pandavas
dhanañjayaḥArjun, the conqueror of wealth
munīnāmamongst the sages
apialso
ahamI
vyāsaḥVed Vyas
kavīnāmamongst the great thinkers
uśhanāShukracharya
kaviḥthe thinker

Themes

from The Thematic Companion to the Bhagavad Gītā
Vibhūti

Meaning — Questions & Solutions

from Q&A with KnA
10.21–10.38The list.

K runs through creation naming Himself as its summit in each order: among the Ādityas, Viṣṇu; among lights, the radiant sun; among the Vedas, the Sāma; among the gods, Indra; among the senses, the mind; of living beings, consciousness itself; among mountains, Meru; of priests, Bṛhaspati; of waters, the ocean; of words, the single syllable Om; of sacrifices, the japa-yajña; of the immovable, the Himālaya; of trees, the aśvattha; of rivers, the Ganges; of sciences, the science of the Self (adhyātma-vidyā). Two touches deserve note. First, He claims not only the noble but the ambiguous: “I am the gambling of the fraudulent” (dyūtaṃ chalayatām asmi) — even the cleverness of cheats is a spark of His power, misused. There is nothing anywhere, high or low, that is not some fraction of His energy. Second, He ends the list on the moral note: “I am the victory, I am the effort, I am the goodness of the good (sattvaṃ sattvavatām)” (10.36). The catalogue is a training exercise: whatever most excellent thing the mind lands on, it is bidden to see through it to the One whose splendour it is.