Shloka 13

Śrī–Indra–Bali Saṃvāda: The Departure and Fourfold Placement of Lakṣmī

Devanagari script

इष्टसत्रेण संसिद्धों भूयश्व॒ तपसा55सुरि: । क्षेत्रक्षेत्रज्ञयोव्र्यक्ति बुबुधे देवदर्शन:,आसुरि तपोबलसे दिव्य दृष्टि प्राप्त कर चुके थे। ज्ञानयजञ्ञके द्वारा सिद्धि प्राप्त करके उन्होंने क्षेत्र और क्षेत्रज्मक भेदको स्पष्टरूपसे समझ लिया था

Transliteration

iṣṭasatreṇa saṃsiddho bhūyaś ca tapasa āsuriḥ | kṣetra-kṣetrajñayor vyaktiṃ bubudhe deva-darśanaḥ ||

Translation

Bhishma said: By attaining perfection through the sacrifice of true knowledge, and again through austere discipline, the sage Asuri—endowed with divine vision—clearly awakened to the distinctness between the ‘field’ (kṣetra, the embodied realm of experience) and the ‘knower of the field’ (kṣetrajña, the conscious self).

Word by Word

इष्टसत्रेणby the (well-)performed sacrificial session

संसिद्धःfully accomplished/perfected

भूयःagain; further; moreover

चand

तपसाby austerity/penance

आसुरिःAsuri (proper name)

क्षेत्रक्षेत्रज्ञयोःof the field and the knower of the field

व्यक्तिम्manifestation; clear distinction

बुबुधेhe understood; he realized

देवदर्शनःhaving divine vision; seeing the gods

Speaker

भीष्म उवाच

Characters & Entities

Bhishma

Asuri

Kshetra

Kshetrajna

Verse Rasa (Emotional Essence)

Geographic Context

Sandhi Notes