Chapter 9, Verse 19
तपाम्यहमहं वर्षं निगृह्णाम्युत्सृजामि च। अमृतं चैव मृत्युश्च सदसच्चाहमर्जुन।।9.19।।
tapāmyahamahaṃ varṣaṃ nigṛhṇāmyutsṛjāmi ca। amṛtaṃ caiva mṛtyuśca sadasaccāhamarjuna।।9.19।।
Word by word
- तपामि
- I give heat (as the sun)
- अहम्
- I
- अहं
- I (repeated for emphasis)
- वर्षं
- rain
- निगृह्णामि
- I withhold
- उत्सृजामि
- I send forth / release
- च
- and
- अमृतं
- immortality / nectar of immortality
- च एव
- and indeed
- मृत्युः
- death
- च
- and
- सत्
- being / the existent
- असत्
- non-being / the non-existent
- च
- and
- अहम्
- I
- अर्जुन
- O Arjuna
Commentary
19. I give heat, 1 hold back and send forth rain, I am the immortality as well as death, exist- ence and non-existence, O Arjuna.
Source: Alladi Mahadeva Sastri, The Bhagavad-Gita with the Commentary of Sri Shankaracharya (1897), public domain
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तपामि
अहम्
अहं
वर्षं
निगृह्णामि
उत्सृजामि
च
अमृतं
च एव
मृत्युः
च
सत्
असत्
च
अहम्
अर्जुन
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