Verse 21

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In plain words

Among the Adityas I am Vishnu; among lights, the radiant sun; among the Maruts I am Marichi; among the stars I am the moon.

Word for word

Among the Ādityas I [am] Viṣṇu; among lights, the radiant sun; Marīci among the Maruts I am; among the stars I [am] the moon.

The commentators

Bhagavadgītābhāṣyam

एवं च ध्येयोऽहम् —

आदित्यानां द्वादशानां विष्णुः नाम आदित्यः अहम् । ज्योतिषां रविः प्रकाशयितॄणाम् अंशुमान् रश्मिमान् । मरीचिः नाम मरुतां मरुद्देवताभेदानाम् अस्मि । नक्षत्राणाम् अहं शशी चन्द्रमाः ॥ २१ ॥

In plain words

And this is how I am to be held in meditation —

Of the twelve Ādityas, I am the one called Viṣṇu. Among the lights — that is, among the bodies that do the illuminating — I am the sun, aṃśumān, the one made of rays. Among the Maruts, the storm-gods in all their ranks, I am the one called Marīci. Among the stars I am śaśī, the moon.

Close to the Sanskrit

And thus I am the one to be meditated upon —

Of the Ādityas, of the twelve, the Āditya named Viṣṇu am I. Of lights — of illuminators — the sun, aṃśumān, that is, ray-bearing. Of the Maruts — of the divisions of Marut deities — I am the one named Marīci. Of the stars I am śaśī, that is, the moon.