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प्रकृतिं पुरुषं चैव विद्ध्यनादी उभावपि ।

विकारांश्च गुणांश्चैव विद्धि प्रकृतिसम्भवान् ॥

13.20

Transliteratie

prakṛtiṃ puruṣaṃ caiva viddhyanādī ubhāvapi |

vikārāṃśca guṇāṃścaiva viddhi prakṛtisambhavān ||

Door Sanskrit System · Machineconcept · @indic-transliteration/sanscript 1.3.3

Vertaling

Know thou that Nature (matter) and the Spirit are both beginningless; and know also that all modifications and alities are born of Nature.

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Krishna now takes up the first pair Arjuna named: nature (prakṛti) and the person (puruṣa). Both, he says, are without beginning. Neither was created at some point in time. All the transformations of the world, along with the three qualities (guṇa) that shape everything, arise from nature. This draws on the Sankhya view of two fundamental principles, the material and the conscious. The Gita adopts this framework but, as the chapter shows, also places both within a larger divine order. For Arjuna, the verse begins to explain where his body, mind and emotions come from.

Door Sanskrit System · Machineconcept · claude-opus-5-5 · 2026-11-08