उच्चैःश्रवसमश्वानां विद्धि माममृतोद्भवम्।ऐरावतं गजेन्द्राणां नराणां च नराधिपम्॥
uccaiḥśravasam aśvānāṃ viddhi mām amṛtodbhavamairāvataṃ gajendrāṇāṃ narāṇāṃ ca narādhipam
Word by word
The verse says
Among horses know me as Uccaiḥśravas, born when the ocean was churned for nectar. Among lordly elephants, Airāvata — and among men, the king.
In plain words
Three items, and all three are about status.
The divine horse. The divine elephant. The king.
After a verse about the village tree, this one is entirely made of splendour, and that contrast is not accidental.
Where you've felt this · with money
At a wedding there is the car the couple arrives in, and there is the uncle who spent three days making sure two hundred people had somewhere to sleep. Everybody photographs the car. Both are part of the same occasion and only one of them is what the occasion is made of.
Going deeper
Magnificence gets its own verse, and taking it at face value is probably right.
There is a temptation to read every grand item in this list as secretly about something humble. That would be dishonest to the text. The Gita is not embarrassed by splendour. Kings, divine horses and great elephants are named without irony, as genuine instances of the divine showing up at the top of the world's hierarchies.
What keeps this from becoming a theology of the powerful is the company it keeps. The same list contains fire, a village tree, repetition and, four verses from the end, the cheating of gamblers.
So the honest reading is that excellence of every kind is being claimed, including the kind that comes with a crown — and that the list is careful never to leave that kind standing on its own.