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Bhagavad Gita 13.0

अर्जुन उवाच · arjuna uvāca

प्रकृतिं पुरुषं चैव क्षेत्रं क्षेत्रज्ञमेव च।एतद्वेदितुमिच्छामि ज्ञानं ज्ञेयं च केशव॥

prakṛtiṃ puruṣaṃ caiva kṣetraṃ kṣetrajñameva ca |etadveditumicchāmi jñānaṃ jñeyaṃ ca keśava ||

Arjuna said, "I wish to learn about Nature and the Spirit, the field and the knower of the field, knowledge and that which ought to be known, O Kesava."

Translation by Swami Sivananda · Public domain in India (translator d. 1963)

Arjuna asked, "My Lord, who is God, what is Nature, what is Matter, and what is the Self? What is Wisdom, and what is worth knowing? I wish to have this explained."

Translation by Shri Purohit Swami · Public domain in India (translator d. 1941)

Our plain-language meaning of this verse is waiting for scholar review.

Edition: Common 700-verse recension. Arjuna's opening question in chapter 13, absent from that recension, is kept as 13.0.

Transliteration in IAST, generated from the Devanagari text.

Source: Sanskrit text via gita/gita (Unlicense), from the Gita Supersite, IIT Kanpur. Sanskrit text public domain.