BG 13.0

अर्जुन उवाच
प्रकृतिं पुरुषं चैव क्षेत्रं क्षेत्रज्ञमेव च ।
एतद्वेदितुमिच्छामि ज्ञानं ज्ञेयं च केशव ॥
arjuna uvāca
prakṛtiṁ puruṣaṁ caiva kṣetraṁ kṣetra-jñam eva ca
etad veditum icchāmi jñānaṁ jñeyaṁ ca keśava

Word-for-word meanings

arjunaḥ uvāca — Arjuna said;  keśava — O Kṛṣṇa;  icchāmi — I wish;  veditum — to know;  etat — all this;  prakṛtim — about material nature;  ca eva — and also;  puruṣam — about the individual conscious living being;  kṣetram — about the presentational field;  eva ca — and indeed;  kṣetra-jñam — about the knower of the field;  jñānam — about knowledge;  ca — and;  jñeyam — the knowable.

Translation

Arjuna said: O Keśava, I wish to know about material nature (prakṛti) and the individual conscious living being (puruṣa), about the presentational field (kṣetra) and the knower of the field (kṣetrajña), as well as about knowledge ( jñāna) and the knowable ( jñeya).

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