Verse 10.37
वृष्णीनां वासुदेवोऽस्मि पाण्डवानां धनञ्जयः ।
मुनीनामप्यहं व्यासः कवीनामुशना कविः ॥
Transliteration
vṛṣṇīnāṃ vāsudevo'smi pāṇḍavānāṃ dhanañjayaḥ |
munīnāmapyahaṃ vyāsaḥ kavīnāmuśanā kaviḥ ||
By Sanskrit System · Machine draft · @indic-transliteration/sanscript 1.3.3
Translation
Among the Vrishnis I am Vaasudeva; among the Pandavas I am Arjuna; among the sages I am Vyasa; among the Poets I am Usanas, the poet.
From the owner's sheet · +1 more
Among the Vrishnis I am Vasudeva; among the Pandavas, Dhananjaya. Among sages I am Vyasa, and among poets, the seer Ushanas.
By Sanskrit System · Machine draft · claude-opus-5-5 · 2026-11-08 · +1 more
Word by word
By Sanskrit System · Machine draft · claude-opus-5-5 · 2026-11-08
Explanation
Now the list reaches the people in the story itself. Among the Vrishnis, Krishna's own clan, he is Vasudeva, that is, Krishna himself. Among the Pandavas he is Dhananjaya, Arjuna, the very listener. Among sages he is Vyasa, the narrator's own source, and among seer-poets he is Ushanas, also known as Shukra, the wise counsellor. The verse is intimate. The divine glory is found not only in distant gods and mountains but in the two figures on the chariot and in the author who records their words. Arjuna hears that he too is a sign of the divine.
By Sanskrit System · Machine draft · claude-opus-5-5 · 2026-11-08