Verse 14.3

मम योनिर्महद् ब्रह्म तस्मिन्गर्भं दधाम्यहम् ।

सम्भवः सर्वभूतानां ततो भवति भारत ॥

14.3

Transliteration

mama yonirmahad brahma tasmingarbhaṃ dadhāmyaham |

sambhavaḥ sarvabhūtānāṃ tato bhavati bhārata ||

By Sanskrit System · Machine draft · @indic-transliteration/sanscript 1.3.3

Translation

My womb is the great Brahma; in that I place the germ; thence, O Arjuna, is the birth of all beings.

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Word by word

my
womb
the great
Brahman
in that
the seed
place
I

birth
of all beings
from that
comes
O Bharata

By Sanskrit System · Machine draft · claude-opus-5-5 · 2026-11-08

Explanation

Krishna uses an image of conception to describe creation. The great Brahman, here understood by most readers as primordial nature (prakṛti) in its undifferentiated state, is his womb, and into it he places the seed. From this union all beings arise. The image joins the two principles of the previous chapter, nature and the conscious principle, but now places both under Krishna: nature is his womb, and the seed is his. Creation is not mechanical but generative, like the birth of a child. The divine is both mother-ground and father-source.