Shloka 2
Adhyaya 50 — Mind-Born Progeny, Svayambhuva Manu’s Lineage, and Brahmā’s Ordinance to Duḥsaha (Alakṣmī’s Retinue)
क्षेत्रज्ञाः समवर्तन्त गात्रेभ्यस्तस्य धीमतः ।
ते सर्वे समवर्तन्त ये मया प्रगुदाहृताः ॥
kṣetrajñāḥ samavartanta gātrebhyas tasya dhīmataḥ | te sarve samavartanta ye mayā pragudāhṛtāḥ ||
From the limbs of that wise one arose the kṣetrajñas (knowers of the field). All of those arose—the very ones previously described by me.
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FAQs
The text distinguishes embodied ‘fields’ and the ‘knowers’ of those fields, implying an ordered emergence of conscious principles alongside material embodiment.
Sarga: it describes the production of a class of beings/principles (kṣetrajñas) as part of the primary creation sequence.
By locating kṣetrajñas in the creator’s ‘limbs,’ the verse suggests that individual consciousnesses are not alien to the cosmic source; they are expressions within the total body of creation.