Bhagavad Gita
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Verse 13.02
श्री भगवानुवाच इदं शरीरं कौन्तेय क्षेत्रमित्यभिधीयते। एतद्यो वेत्ति तं प्राहुः क्षेत्रज्ञ इति तद्विदः ॥13.2॥
13.01 śrībhagavān uvāca idaṃ śarīraṃ kaunteya kṣetram ity abhidhīyate etad yo vetti taṃ prāhuḥ kṣetrajña iti tadvidaḥ
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BradOriginal Translation

The Blessed Lord (Śrī Bhagavān) said: This body, O son of Kunti (Kaunteya), is called the field (kṣetra). He who knows it, those who know call him the knower of the field (kṣetrajña).

Stoller MillerLiterary

Know me as the field-knower in all fields—what I deem to be knowledge is knowledge of the field and its knower.

ZaehnerJesuit

The Blessed Lord said: (1) The body is called the 'field' and he who knows it is the 'knower of the field', or so it has been said by those who know it.

GambhiranandaAdvaita

13.2 The Blessed Lord said -- O son of Kuntī, this body is referred to as the 'field'. Those who are versed in this call him who is conscious of it as the 'knower of the field'.

AdidevanandaVishishtadvaita

13.2 The Lord said -- This body, O Arjuna, is called the Field, Kṣetra. He who knows it is called the Filed-knower, Kṣetrajña, by those who know the self.

SivanandaVedanta

13.2 The Blessed Lord said -- This body, O Arjuna, is called the field; he who knows it is called the knower of the field, by those who know of them.

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