Shankaracharya's commentary, trans. Alladi Mahadeva Sastry (1897)
[1]And what that Kshetra is, and of what nature, and what its changes; and whence is what; and who He is and what His powers; this hear thou briefly from Me.
BG 13.4
तत्क्षेत्रं यच्च यादृक् च यद्विकारि यतश्च यत्।स च यो यत्प्रभावश्च तत्समासेन मे श्रृणु ॥
tatkṣetraṃ yacca yādṛk ca yadvikāri yataśca yat|sa ca yo yatprabhāvaśca tatsamāsena me śrṛṇu ||
"Hear briefly from Me: what kṣetra is, its properties, its modifications, from what, and who the kṣetrajña is!"
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Swami Swarupananda, Srimad Bhagavad Gita (1909)
[4]What the Kshetra is, what its properties are, what its modifications are, what effects arise from what causes, and also who He is and what His powers are, that hear from Me in brief.
Sir Edwin Arnold, The Song Celestial (1885)
[7]Now will I tell thee of this Kshetra, / What it is, / How it is and what things there be in it — / What Ksheyrajna is, / Whence is he, and what his powers — / Briefly I will tell thee all.
K.T. Telang, Sacred Books of the East Vol. 8 (1882)
[9]Now hear from me in brief what that Kshetra (is), what (it is) like, what changes (it undergoes), and whence (it comes), and what is he (viz. the Kshetrajña), and what his powers.
K.M. Ganguli, The Mahabharata, Bhishma Parva (1883–96)
[13]What that Kshetra (is), and what (it is) like, and what changes it undergoes, and whence (it comes), what is he (viz., Kshetrajna), and what his powers are, hear from me in brief.