Shankaracharya's commentary, trans. Alladi Mahadeva Sastry (1897)
[1]Earth, water, fire, air, ether, mind, intellect, and ahaṅkāra — thus is My prakṛti divided eightfold.
BG 7.4
भूमिरापोऽनलो वायुः खं मनो बुद्धिरेव च | अहङ्कार इतीयं मे भिन्ना प्रकृतिरष्टधा ||४||
bhūmir āpo'nalo vāyuḥ khaṃ mano buddhir eva ca | ahaṅkāra itīyaṃ me bhinnā prakṛtir aṣṭadhā || 4 ||
"Earth, water, fire, air, ether, mind, intellect, ego — these eight are the divisions of My lower nature."
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Swami Swarupananda, Srimad Bhagavad Gita (1909)
[4]Bhumi (earth), Ap (water), Anala (fire), Vayu (air), Kha (ether), mind, intellect, and egoism: thus is My Prakriti divided eightfold.
Annie Besant & Bhagavan Das, The Bhagavad Gītā (1905)
[5]Earth, water, fire, air, ether, mind, intellect, and ego — thus is my Prakriti divided eightfold.
William Quan Judge, The Bhagavad Gita (1890)
[6]Earth, water, fire, air, ether, mind, intellect, and individuality — this is the eightfold division of my nature.
Sir Edwin Arnold, The Song Celestial (1885)
[7]Earth, water, flame, air, ether, life, and mind, and individuality — those eight make up the showing of My lower Nature.
K.T. Telang, Sacred Books of the East Vol. 8 (1882)
[9]Earth, water, fire, air, space, mind, intellect, and ego — thus is My nature eightfold-divided.