Āṅgan No. 6
Every Indian home keeps a little Ganga jal. Kṛṣṇa says: of rivers, I am the Ganga.
Somewhere in most Indian homes there is a small sealed bottle of Ganga jal, brought back from a pilgrimage, kept for pujas and for the last moments of life.
In chapter ten, Kṛṣṇa names what he is. At 10.31: of moving things I am the wind, of those who bear weapons I am Rāma, and of rivers I am the Ganga, jāhnavī.
The river you keep at home is in the Gītā, in Kṛṣṇa’s own list of himself.
A few drops at every puja. A verse in every home.
Arjuna asked his. Samvāda answers yours with the Gītā's own verses.
Samvāda is software, an AI companion tuned to the Bhagavad Gītā. It is not a person. It answers from the verse and shows you which one, and it never pretends to be Kṛṣṇa.
पवनः पवतामस्मि रामः शस्त्रभृतामहम्।
झषाणां मकरश्चास्मि स्रोतसामस्मि जाह्नवी।।
pavanaḥ pavatām asmi rāmaḥ śastra-bhṛtām aham jhaṣāṇāṁ makaraś cāsmi srotasām asmi jāhnavī
Of moving things, I am the wind; of those who bear weapons, I am Rama; of fishers, I am Makara; and of rivers, I am the Ganga.
10.31 is verse 403 of 700, and verse 31 of 42 in chapter 10.
Jāhnavī (the Sanskrit name the verse uses for the Ganga), in any form, appears in exactly one verse of the 700, 10.31.
Chapter 10 has 42 verses. Speakers: Kṛṣṇa 35, Arjuna 7.
Counted by Vāṇi on the 700-verse text at getvani.app/gita.
Chapter 10 holds the long list in which Kṛṣṇa names what he is. It begins at 10.19, where he says he will speak of his most prominent glories, because there is no end to them. 10.31 is one line of that list: of moving things he is the wind, of those who bear weapons he is Rāma, of water creatures he is Makara, and of rivers he is the Ganga. The verse before it, 10.30, names Prahlāda among the Daityas and the lion among beasts. The verse after, 10.32, turns from rivers to beginnings, middles and ends. The Sanskrit calls the river jāhnavī. The point of the list is not geography. In each pair, the best example of a thing is where you can look and see him. A river kept in a bottle at home is one of those places. Read the whole chapter at chapter 10.