Bhagavad Gita
    Chapter 9 · The Royal Knowledge

    Verse 19

    Sanskrit Text — Chapter 9, Verse 19

    तपाम्यहमहं वर्षं निगृह्णाम्युत्सृजामि च। अमृतं चैव मृत्युश्च सदसच्चाहमर्जुन।।9.19।।

    Transliteration (IAST)

    tapāmyaham ahaṁ varṣhaṁ nigṛihṇāmyutsṛijāmi cha amṛitaṁ chaiva mṛityuśh cha sad asach chāham arjuna

    Translation

    I give heat, I withhold and send forth the rain; I am immortality and also death, O Arjuna. I am the being and the non-being.
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