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BG 14.4

Bhagavad Gītā · Guṇatraya Vibhāga YogaAnuṣṭubh (śloka)

सर्वयोनिषु कौन्तेय मूर्तयः सम्भवन्ति याः | तासां ब्रह्म महद्योनिरहं बीजप्रदः पिता ||१४-४||

sarvayoniṣu kaunteya mūrtayaḥ sambhavanti yāḥ . tāsāṃ brahma mahadyonirahaṃ bījapradaḥ pitā ||14-4||

Linguistic facts

Meter · chandasVidyut

Anuṣṭubh (śloka) · 16+16 syllables

scansion (laghu/guru)
saGrvaLyoGniLṣuLkauGnteGyaLGrtaLyaḥGsaGmbhaLvaGntiLyāḥG
GsāṃGbraGhmaLmaLhaGdyoGniLraLhaṃGGjaGpraLdaḥGpiLG
Sandhi · pada-pāṭhaVidyut
सस्रूअयस्निषुकौन्तेयमूर्तयस्सम्भवन्तियास्तासाम्ब्रह्ममहत्योनिस्अहम्बीजप्रदस्पिता
Word-by-word morphologyVidyut
16 words analyzed
  • सस्sasnominal · nominative singular masculine
  • रूरुnominal · nominative dual masculine
  • अयस्ayasnominal · nominative singular masculine
  • निषुniṣuनिnominal · locative plural neuter
  • कौन्तेयkaunteyaकौन्तेयnominal · vocative singular masculine
  • मूर्तयस्mūrtayasमूर्छ्nominal · nominative plural masculine
  • सम्samnominal · accusative singular masculine
  • भवन्तिbhavantiभूverb · present third plural active (√bhū)
  • यास्yāsयाnominal · nominative singular masculine
  • तासाम्tāsāmतासिnominal · genitive plural masculine
  • ब्रह्मbrahmaब्रह्मन्nominal · vocative singular neuter
  • महत्mahatमह्nominal · nominative singular neuter
  • योनिस्yonisयोनिnominal · nominative singular masculine
  • अहम्ahamअहnominal · nominative singular neuter
  • बीजप्रदस्bījapradasबीजप्रदnominal · nominative singular masculine
  • पिताpitāपिnominal · instrumental singular masculine
Recitationtool-derived · pending

Facts come from Vidyut (deterministic), never the model. Automated segmentation isn’t hand-verified — gaps are shown, not guessed.

Translations

Swami SivanandaRelay

14.4 Whatever forms are produced, O Arjuna, in any womb whatsoever, the great Brahma is their womb and I am the seed-giving father.

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8 more attributed translations
A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami PrabhupadaRelay

It should be understood that all species of life, O son of Kuntī, are made possible by birth in this material nature, and that I am the seed-giving father.

Dr.S.SankaranarayanRelay

14.4. O son of Kunti ! Whatever manifestations spring up in all the wombs, of them the mighty Brahman is the womb and I am the father laying the seed.

Shri Purohit SwamiRelay

14.4 O illustrious son of Kunti! Through whatever wombs men are born, it is the Spirit Itself that conceives, and I am their Father.

Sri Abhinav GuptaRelay

14.4 Sarvayonisu etc. In all the wombs (whatever gives birth to anything), the expansive Energy of the Bhagavat exists as the prime cause; and hence It is the Mother having the innate nature of giving birth to the entire world process. But I am the Father, the Energetic, the Inexplicable.

Sri RamanujaRelay

14.4 In all wombs such as those of gods, Gandharvas, Yaksas, Raksasas, men, animals, beasts, birds, serpents etc., whatever forms are generated, the brahman (Prakrti) is the 'great womb' or cause. Beginning from Mahat and ending with the five elements, Prakrti, with the mass of conscient selves imbedded by Me in it, is the cause. I am the sowing father. The meaning is that I am the imbedder of the multiplex of conscient selves according to each one's Karma. Now, He teaches the cause of continuing births as divinities etc., of those born in this manner at the beginning of a cycle of creation. It is due to the conjunction of these beings with Prakrti, in keeping with their old Karmas:

Sri ShankaracharyaRelay

14.4 O son of Kunti, yah, whatever; murtayah, forms-that have their parts and limbs integrated, which is characteristic of the formation of bodies; sambhavanti, are born; sarva-yonisu, from all wombs-from the wombs of gods, manes, humans, cattle, beasts, etc.; tasam, of them, of those forms; mahat brahma, the great-sustainer, which exists as all the (various) forms; is the yonih, womb, source. Aham, I, God; am the pita, father; bija-pradah, who desposits the seed, the agent of impregnation. (Now) is being stated which are the alities and how they bind:

Swami AdidevanandaRelay

14.4 Whatever forms are produced in any womb, O Arjuna, the Prakrti is their great womb and I am the sowing father.

Swami GambiranandaRelay

14.4 O son of Kunti, whatever forms are born from all the wombs, of them the great-sustainer is the womb; I am the father who deposits the seed.

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