Sanskrit · Devanagari
श्रीभगवानुवाच।
इदं शरीरं कौन्तेय क्षेत्रमित्यभिधीयते।
एतद्यो वेत्ति तं प्राहुः क्षेत्रज्ञ इति तद्विदः ॥
Sanskrit · IAST
śrībhagavānuvāca
idaṃ śarīraṃ kaunteya kṣetramityabhidhīyate
etadyo vetti taṃ prāhuḥ kṣetrajña iti tadvidaḥ
English witness
Kashinath Trimbak Telang, 1882O son of Kuntī ! is called Kṣetra
This verse-level alignment is machine-assisted and awaits two independent human checks. Confidence signal: 20%.
Critical apparatus
Recorded variant
Some editions count an opening question by Arjuna as 13.1, producing 701 verses. This 700-verse edition records it as an unnumbered prelude.
अर्जुन उवाच |
प्रकृतिं पुरुषं चैव क्षेत्रं क्षेत्रज्ञमेव च |
एतद्वेदितुमिच्छामि ज्ञानं ज्ञेयं च केशव
arjuna uvāca .
prakṛtiṃ puruṣaṃ caiva kṣetraṃ kṣetrajñameva ca .
etadveditumicchāmi jñānaṃ jñeyaṃ ca keśava
Record integrity
Provenance
- Canonical ID
gita.13.1- Corpus version
- gita-1.0.0-rc.1
- Text review
- machine-cross-checked; two human passes pending
- Devanagari and IAST digital witness
- vedic-scriptures · BG13.2
- English translation witness
- telang-1882 · Chapter 13; aligned against BG13.2
- SHA-256
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