Verse 13.1

प्रकृतिं पुरुषं चैव क्षेत्रं क्षेत्रज्ञमेव च ।

एतद्वेदितुमिच्छामि ज्ञानं ज्ञेयं च केशव ॥

13.1

Transliteration

prakṛtiṃ puruṣaṃ caiva kṣetraṃ kṣetrajñameva ca |

etadveditumicchāmi jñānaṃ jñeyaṃ ca keśava ||

By Sanskrit System · Machine draft · @indic-transliteration/sanscript 1.3.3

Translation

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

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Word by word

nature
the spirit
and
also
the field
the knower of the field
also
and

this
to know
I wish
knowledge
the knowable
and
O Keshava

By Sanskrit System · Machine draft · claude-opus-5-5 · 2026-11-08

Explanation

Chapter thirteen opens with Arjuna naming six terms he wants to understand: nature (prakṛti) and person (puruṣa), the field (kṣetra) and the knower of the field (kṣetrajña), knowledge (jñāna) and what is to be known. This verse is absent from some manuscript traditions, which is why verse counts for the chapter differ, but where it appears it serves as a list of topics for what follows. The tone of the dialogue changes here. After the devotional height of the preceding chapters, Krishna turns to a more analytical account of body, mind and consciousness.