Verset 13.2

इदं शरीरं कौन्तेय क्षेत्रमित्यभिधीयते ।

एतद्यो वेत्ति तं प्राहुः क्षेत्रज्ञ इति तद्विदः ॥

13.2

Translittération

idaṃ śarīraṃ kaunteya kṣetramityabhidhīyate |

etadyo vetti taṃ prāhuḥ kṣetrajña iti tadvidaḥ ||

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Traduction

The Blessed Lord said This body, O Arjuna, is called the field; he who knows it is called the knower of the field, by those who know of them.

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Mot à mot

this
body
O son of Kunti
the field
thus
is called

this
who
knows
him
they call
knower of the field
thus
those who know it

Par Sanskrit System · Brouillon automatique · claude-opus-5-5 · 2026-11-08

Explication

Krishna introduces the chapter's central image. The body is called the field (kṣetra), the ground in which actions are sown and their results reaped. The one who knows the body, who is aware of it from within, is called the knower of the field (kṣetrajña). The distinction is simple but far-reaching: there is what is known, and there is the one who knows. Arjuna, standing on the field of Kurukshetra, hears the word field used now for his own body and mind. The outer battlefield becomes an image of the inner one.