kalah kalayatam aham

mrganam ca mrgendro ‘ham

vainateyas ca paksinam

prahlādaḥ—Prahlāda; ca—also; asmi—I am; daityānām—of the demons; kālaḥ—time; kalayatām—of subduers; aham—I am; mṛgāṇām—of animals; ca—and; mṛgendraḥ—the lion; aham—I am; vainateyaḥ—Garuḍa; ca—also; pakṣiṇām—of birds.

Among the Daitya demons I am the devoted Prahlāda; among subduers I am time; among the beasts I am the lion, and among birds I am Garuḍa, the feathered carrier of Viṣṇu.

ramah sastra-bhrtam aham

jhasanam makaras casmi

srotasam asmi jahnavi

pavanaḥ—the wind; pavatām—of all that purifies; asmi—I am; rāmaḥ—Rāma; śastra-bhṛtām—of the carriers of weapons; aham—I am; jhaṣāṇām—of all aquatics; makaraḥ—shark; ca asmi—I am also; srotasām—of flowing rivers; asmi—I am; jāhnavī—the River Ganges.

Of purifiers I am the wind; of the wielders of weapons I am Rāma; of fishes I am the shark, and of flowing rivers I am the Ganges.

madhyam caivaham arjuna

adhyatma-vidya vidyanam

vadah pravadatam aham

sargāṇām—of all creations; ādiḥ—beginning; antaḥ—end; ca—and; madhyam—middle; ca—also; eva—certainly; aham—I am; arjuna—O Arjuna; adhyātma-vidyā—spiritual knowledge; vidyānām—of all education; vādaḥ—natural conclusion; pravadatām—of arguments; aham—I am.

Of all creations I am the beginning and the end and also the middle, O Arjuna. Of all sciences