Bhagavad Gita 10.24 Meaning: Purodhasam cha mukhyam mam

Bhagavad Gita 10.24

पुरोधसां च मुख्यं मां विद्धि पार्थ बृहस्पतिम् ।सेनानीनामहं स्कन्दः सरसामस्मि सागरः ॥

Purodhasam cha mukhyam mam viddhi partha brihaspatimSenaninamaham skandah sarasamasmi sagarah

purodhasāṃ ca mukhyaṃ māṃ viddhi pārtha bṛhaspatim |senānīnāmahaṃ skandaḥ sarasāmasmi sāgaraḥ ||

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Our explanation Krishna tells Arjuna, son of Pritha, to know him as Bṛhaspati, the chief of household priests (Bṛhaspati is the priest of the gods); among army leaders he is Skanda; among bodies of water, the ocean.

हिंदी अर्थ कृष्ण अर्जुन (पार्थ) से कहते हैं कि पुरोहितों में उन्हें मुख्य पुरोहित बृहस्पति जानो (बृहस्पति देवताओं के पुरोहित हैं); सेनापतियों में वे स्कंद हैं; और जलाशयों में सागर।

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पुरोधसाम् purodhasām · among household priests (noun (masculine), genitive plural) Dictionary: puro-dhas, Monier-Williams 1899, p. 635, col. 2 “chief priest of a king, domestic chaplain”
च ca · and (indeclinable) Dictionary: 2. ca, Monier-Williams 1899, p. 380, col. 1 “and, both, also, moreover, as well as”
मुख्यम् mukhyam · the chief (adjective (masculine), accusative singular) Dictionary: mukhya, Monier-Williams 1899, p. 820, col. 2 “being at the head or at the beginning, first, principal, chief, eminent”
माम् mām · "me" (Krishna) (pronoun, accusative singular) Dictionary: 1. mad, Monier-Williams 1899, p. 777, col. 2 “base of the first pers. pron. in the sg. number (esp. in comp.)”
विद्धि viddhi · know (imperative, 2nd person singular) Dictionary: 1. vid, Monier-Williams 1899, p. 963, col. 2 “to know, understand, perceive, learn”
पार्थ pārtha · O Partha (son of Pritha) (noun (masculine), vocative singular) Dictionary: 2. pārtha, Monier-Williams 1899, p. 621, col. 3 “metron. of Yudhi-shṭhira or Bhīma-sena or Arjuna”
बृहस्पतिम् bṛhaspatim · Bṛhaspati (noun (masculine), accusative singular) Dictionary: bṛhas-pati, Monier-Williams 1899, p. 737, col. 1 “'lord of prayer or devotion,' N. of a deity”
सेनानीनाम् senānīnām · among army leaders (noun (masculine), genitive plural) Dictionary: senā-nī, Monier-Williams 1899, p. 1246, col. 2 “the leader of an army, commander, general, chief”
अहम् aham · "I" (Krishna) (pronoun, nominative singular) Dictionary: aham, Monier-Williams 1899, p. 124, col. 2 “nom. sg. ‘I,’”
स्कन्दः skandaḥ · Skanda (noun (masculine), nominative singular) Dictionary: skanda, Monier-Williams 1899, p. 1256, col. 1 “‘Attacker,’ N. of Kārttikeya”
सरसाम् sarasām · among bodies of water (noun (neuter), genitive plural) Dictionary: saras, Monier-Williams 1899, p. 1182, col. 2 “a lake, large sheet of water, pond, pool, tank”
अस्मि asmi · am (present, 1st person singular) Dictionary: 1. as, Monier-Williams 1899, p. 117, col. 2 “to be, live, exist, be present”
सागरः sāgaraḥ · the ocean (noun (masculine), nominative singular) Dictionary: sāgara, Monier-Williams 1899, p. 1198, col. 2 “the ocean”

1 printing differs

Edition differences. Another printing or text reads this place differently.

The printed edition reads: पुरोधसां च मुख्यं मां बिद्धि पार्थ बृहस्पतिम् ।
सेनानीनामहं स्कन्दः सरसामस्मि सागरः ॥ The print reads बिद्धि, with ब (the stroke inside the loop, as in बृहस्पतिम् on the same line) for व; read as a wrong sort and corrected to विद्धि ('know'), because the same word is printed विद्धि in 10.27 and both proofreading references read विद्धि.

Bhagavad Gita 10.24: meaning and translation

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