तत्क्षेत्रं यच्च यादृक्च यद्विकारि यतश्च यत् ।स च यो यत्प्रभावश्च तत्समासेन मे शृणु ॥
tat kṣetraṃ yac ca yādṛk ca yad-vikāri yataś ca yat |sa ca yo yat-prabhāvaś ca tat samāsena me śṛṇu ||
- तत् क्षेत्रम् · tat kṣetram
- that field
- यत् · yat
- what
- यादृक् · yādṛk
- of what kind
- यद्विकारि · yad-vikāri
- what its changes are
- यतः · yataḥ
- from what (it arises)
- सः · saḥ
- he (the knower)
- यत्प्रभावः · yat-prabhāvaḥ
- what his powers are
- समासेन · samāsena
- in brief
- शृणु · śṛṇu
- hear
“What that field is, of what kind, what its changes are, from what it comes — and who he (the knower) is and what his powers are: hear that from me in brief.”
— Original plain-language translation
Krishna lays out the chapter's syllabus in six questions — field, nature, changes, origin, knower, powers. The next verses answer them in order, moving from cosmology to the definition of wisdom itself.
— Reader's notes (original)