13.6

Sanskrit

महाभूतान्यहङ्कारो बुद्धिरव्यक्तमेव च । इन्द्रियाणि दशैकं च पञ्च चेन्द्रियगोचराः ॥

mahābhūtāny ahaṅkāro buddhir avyaktam eva ca indriyāṇi daśaikaṃ ca pañca cendriyagocarāḥ

Translation

The great Elements, Individuality, Reason, and also the unmanifested, the ten senses and the one, and the five pastures of the senses;

Annie Besant · The Bhagavad-Gita, translated by Annie Besant (4th ed., 1922) — Wikisource · Public Domain

Explanation

The catalogue opens with a compressed Samkhya-style ontology: the five gross elements (mahabhuta — earth, water, fire, air, ether), ahankara (the ego-sense, the faculty of individuation that manufactures “I” and “mine”), buddhi (the discriminating intellect), the unmanifest (avyakta — the unexpressed root-potential prakriti sits in before it differentiates into named things), the eleven senses (five of perception, five of action, plus mind/manas), and the five sense-objects. None of this vocabulary gets its own concept note here, so it’s worth being precise about it once: these are the instruments and raw material of experience — everything that can be observed — which is exactly why all of it belongs to the “field” side of the kshetra/kshetrajna divide, not the knower.