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Bhagavad Gita 6.11

शुचौ देशे प्रतिष्ठाप्य स्थिरमासनमात्मनः।नात्युच्छ्रितं नातिनीचं चैलाजिनकुशोत्तरम्॥

śucau deśe pratiṣṭhāpya sthiramāsanamātmanaḥ |nātyucchritaṃ nātinīcaṃ cailājinakuśottaram ||

In a clean spot, having established a firm seat of his own, neither too high nor too low, made of cloth, skin, and kusha grass layered one over the other.

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

Having chosen a holy place, let him sit in a firm posture on a seat that is neither too high nor too low, and cover it with a grass mat, a deer skin, and a cloth.

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.

Bhagavad Gita 6.11 · SatsangVidya