BG 13.5-6

महाभूतान्यहङ्कारो बुद्धिरव्यक्तमेव च ।
इन्द्रियाणि दशैकं च पञ्च चेन्द्रियगोचराः ॥
इच्छा द्वेषः सुखं दुःखं सङ्घातश्चेतना धृतिः ।
एतत्क्षेत्रं समासेन सविकारमुदाहृतम् ॥
mahā-bhūtāny ahaṅkāro buddhir avyaktam eva ca
indriyāṇi daśaikaṁ ca pañca cendriya-gocarāḥ
icchā dveṣaḥ sukhaṁ duḥkhaṁ saṅghātaś cetanā dhṛtiḥ
etat kṣetraṁ samāsena sa-vikāram udāhṛtam

Word-for-word meanings

mahā-bhūtāni — the [five] great elements;  ahaṅkāraḥ — the conditional I-sense;  buddhiḥ — the intellect;  eva ca — and indeed;  avyaktam — the unmanifest [prakṛti];  ca — and;  indriyāṇi daśa-ekam — the ten sense faculties and the mind;  ca — and;  pañca — the five;  indriya-go-carāḥ — objects of the senses;  icchā — desire;  dveṣaḥ — aversion;  sukham — happiness;  duḥkham — distress;  saṅghātaḥ — the aggregate [i.e., the body];  cetanā — awareness;  dhṛtiḥ — [and] fortitude;  etat — [all] this;  udāhṛtam — is described;  samāsena — in brief;  kṣetram — as the field;  sa-vikāram — along with its modifications.

Translation

The five great elements, the conditional I-sense, the intellect, the unmanifest [prakṛti], the ten sense faculties and the mind, the five sense objects, desire, aversion, happiness, distress, the aggregate [of the elements, called the body], awareness, and fortitude — all this is described in brief as the field of action along with its modifications.

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