{"id":4107,"date":"2017-03-27T19:15:38","date_gmt":"2017-03-27T19:15:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/githa.koyil.org\/?p=4107"},"modified":"2017-03-27T19:15:38","modified_gmt":"2017-03-27T19:15:38","slug":"10-21","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/githa.koyil.org\/index.php\/10-21\/","title":{"rendered":"10.21 AdhithyAnAm aham vishNur"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><small>SrI:\u00a0 SrImathE SatakOpAya nama:\u00a0 SrImathE rAmAnujAya nama:\u00a0 SrImath varavaramunayE nama:<\/small><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/githa.koyil.org\/index.php\/10\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Chapter 10<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/githa.koyil.org\/index.php\/10-20\">&lt;&lt; Chapter 10 verse 20<\/a><\/p>\n<h3>SlOkam \u2013 <a href=\"https:\/\/githa.koyil.org\/index.php\/10-21-original\/\">Original<\/a><\/h3>\n<p><em>AdhithyAnAm aham vishNur jyOthishAm ravir amSumAn |<\/em><br \/>\n<em> marIchir maruthAm asmi nakshhathrANAm aham SaSI ||<\/em><\/p>\n<h3>word-by-word meaning  <\/h3>\n<p>AdhithyAnam &#8211; among the 12 Adhithyas (sons of adhithi)<br \/>\nvishNu &#8211; (the best) one who is named vishNu<br \/>\naham &#8211; I am<br \/>\njyOthishAm &#8211; among the luminous objects<br \/>\namSumAn ravi: &#8211; sun which has rays<br \/>\n(aham &#8211; I am);<br \/>\nmaruthAm &#8211; among the maruthas (winds)<br \/>\nmarIchi: &#8211; marIchi (which is the best one)<br \/>\nasmi &#8211; (I) have become<br \/>\nnakshathrANAm &#8211; among the stars<br \/>\nSaSI &#8211; moon<br \/>\naham &#8211; I am<\/p>\n<h3>Simple Translation  <\/h3>\n<p>Among the 12 Adhithyas (sons of adhithi), I am (the best) one who is named vishNu; among the luminous objects I am the sun which has rays; among the maruthas (winds), I am marIchi (which is the best one); among the stars, I am the moon.<\/p>\n<h3>Rendering based on ALkoNdavilli gOvindhAchArya swAmy\u2019s English translation of gIthA bhAshyam<\/h3>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">&#8216;Of the \u0100dityas I am Vish\u1e47u: of the luminous orbs, the radiant Sun; of the Maruts, I am Mar\u012bchi: of the stars I am the Moon.&#8217;<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Of the Adityas, who are twelve[1. <em>Vish: Pur:<\/em> (1) Dh\u0101t\u1e5bi (2) Aryam\u0101 (3) Mitra (4) Varu\u1e47a (5) Indra, (6) Vivasv\u0101n, (7) P\u016bshan, (8)<br \/>\nParjanya, (9) Am\u015bu, (10) Bh\u0101ga, (11) Tvasht\u1e5bi (12) Vish\u1e47u.] in number, the chief one bearing the name Vish\u1e47u is Myself.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Of the shining lights in the Universe, I am the Solar group. Of the Maruts[2. The Seven Maruts are: (1) \u0100vaha (2) Pravaha (3) Nivaha (4) Paravaha (5) Udvaha (6) Samvaha (7) Parivaha (=Mar\u012bchi)]-, the chief, by name Mar\u012bchi is Myself.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">I am the Moon of the asterisms. The genetive case \u2018of\u2019 here is not used as specifying one out of many, but as one over all; Moon in the present instance being the Lord over all the stars; as exemplified again in \u2018I am the intelligence of beings\u2019 (<em>G\u012bt\u0101<\/em>: <a href=\"https:\/\/githa.koyil.org\/index.php\/10-22-original\/\">X-22<\/a>) where, it means that what exists as intelligence in beings as <em>apart<\/em> from beings, is Myself.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/githa.koyil.org\/index.php\/10-22\">&gt;&gt; Chapter 10 verse 22<\/a><\/p>\n<p>archived in <a href=\"https:\/\/githa.koyil.org\">https:\/\/githa.koyil.org<\/a><\/p>\n<p>pramEyam (goal) \u2013 <a href=\"http:\/\/koyil.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">http:\/\/koyil.org<\/a><br \/>\npramANam (scriptures) \u2013 <a href=\"http:\/\/granthams.koyil.org\">http:\/\/granthams.koyil.org<\/a><br \/>\npramAthA (preceptors) \u2013 <a href=\"http:\/\/acharyas.koyil.org\">http:\/\/acharyas.koyil.org<\/a><br \/>\nSrIvaishNava education\/kids portal \u2013 <a href=\"http:\/\/pillai.koyil.org\/\">http:\/\/pillai.koyil.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SrI:\u00a0 SrImathE SatakOpAya nama:\u00a0 SrImathE rAmAnujAya nama:\u00a0 SrImath varavaramunayE nama: Chapter 10 &lt;&lt; Chapter 10 verse 20 SlOkam \u2013 Original AdhithyAnAm aham vishNur jyOthishAm ravir amSumAn | marIchir maruthAm asmi nakshhathrANAm aham SaSI || word-by-word meaning AdhithyAnam &#8211; among the 12 Adhithyas (sons of adhithi) vishNu &#8211; (the best) one who is named vishNu aham &#8230; <a title=\"10.21 AdhithyAnAm aham vishNur\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/githa.koyil.org\/index.php\/10-21\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about 10.21 AdhithyAnAm aham vishNur\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4107","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chapter-10","category-simple"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/githa.koyil.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4107","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/githa.koyil.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/githa.koyil.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/githa.koyil.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/githa.koyil.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4107"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/githa.koyil.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4107\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/githa.koyil.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4107"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/githa.koyil.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4107"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/githa.koyil.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4107"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}