13.4 What will be covered Krishna speaks
तत्क्षेत्रं यच्च यादृक् च यद्विकारि यतश्च यत्
स च यो यत्प्रभावश्च तत्समासेन मे श्रृणु
tat kṣhetraṁ yach cha yādṛik cha yad-vikāri yataśh cha yat
sa cha yo yat-prabhāvaśh cha tat samāsena me śhṛiṇu
What that field is, what its nature is, how it changes, and from what it comes; and who the knower is and what his power — hear this from me in brief.
Explanation
The agenda, stated in advance.
What the field is, its nature, how it changes, where it comes from; who the knower is and what his power.
Unusually orderly for this book, and the chapter does keep to it. What arrives instead of orderliness is 13.14–13.18, where the description of the knower proceeds almost entirely by contradiction.
Word by word
- tat
- that
- kṣhetram
- field of activities
- yat
- what
- cha
- and
- yādṛik
- its nature
- cha
- and
- yat-vikāri
- how change takes place in it
- yataḥ
- from what
- cha
- also
- yat
- what
- saḥ
- he
- cha
- also
- yaḥ
- who
- yat-prabhāvaḥ
- what his powers are
- cha
- and
- tat
- that
- samāsena
- in summary
- me
- from me
- śhṛiṇu
- listen
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