9.17

Sanskrit

पिताऽहमस्य जगतो माता धाता पितामहः । वेद्यं पवित्रमोङ्कार ऋक् साम यजुरेव च ॥

pitāham asya jagato mātā dhātā pitāmahaḥ vedyaṃ pavitram oṅkāra ṛk sāma yajur eva ca

Translation

I the Father of this universe, the Mother, the Supporter, the Grandsire, the Holy one to be known, the Word of Power, and also the Rik, Sâma, and Yajur,

Annie Besant · The Bhagavad-Gita, translated by Annie Besant (4th ed., 1922) — Wikisource · Public Domain

Explanation

Continues the identification of verse 16 into cosmogonic and scriptural roles — father, mother, the sacred syllable Om, the three Vedas. The list format itself, a chain of bare nominal predicates with no connecting verbs, is characteristic of this whole section and recurs even more densely in verse 18.