Chapter 13, Verse 3
तत्क्षेत्रं यच्च यादृक् च यद्विकारि यतश्च यत्। स च यो यत्प्रभावश्च तत्समासेन मे श्रृणु।।13.4।।
tatkṣetraṃ yacca yādṛk ca yadvikāri yataśca yat. sa ca yo yatprabhāvaśca tatsamāsena me śṛṇu.13.4.
Word by word
- tat
- that
- kṣetram
- field (the body)
- yat ca
- and which (it is, i.e. its essential nature)
- yādṛk ca
- and of what kind/quality
- yat-vikāri
- what modifications/transformations it undergoes
- yataḥ ca
- and from what source/cause (it arises)
- yat
- which (it is, further nature)
- saḥ ca
- and he (that knower of the field)
- yaḥ
- who (is)
- yat-prabhāvaḥ ca
- and what power/influence he has
- tat samāsena
- that, in brief/summary
- me
- from me
- śṛṇu
- hear (imperative)
Commentary
3. And what that Kshetra is, and of what nature, and what its changes ; and whence is what; and who He is and what His powers ; this hear thou briefly from Me.
Source: Alladi Mahadeva Sastri, The Bhagavad-Gita with the Commentary of Sri Shankaracharya (1897), public domain
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tat
kṣetram
yat ca
yādṛk ca
yat-vikāri
yataḥ ca
yat
saḥ ca
yaḥ
yat-prabhāvaḥ ca
tat samāsena
me
śṛṇu
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