---
type: Reference
bundle: sankhya-darshana
bundle_version: 0.13.0
id: bhagavad-gita-ch13
title: Bhagavad Gītā, Chapter 13 (Kṣetra-Kṣetrajña)
description: The Gita's chapter on the Field (kshetra, prakriti's domain) and the Knower of the Field (kshetrajna, purusha), a well-known cross-traditional parallel to Samkhya's purusha-prakriti dualism, cited here as a secondary, non-Samkhya-specific anchor illustrating the dualism's wider resonance in the corpus -- not treated as a Samkhya-school primary text.
tags:
- reference
- bhagavad-gita
- kshetra-kshetrajna
- secondary-parallel
timestamp: '2026-07-10'
okf_version: '0.2'
license: CC BY-SA 4.0
---

# Bhagavad Gītā, Chapter 13 (Kṣetra-Kṣetrajña)

The Gita's chapter on the Field (kshetra, prakriti's domain) and the Knower of the Field (kshetrajna, purusha), a well-known cross-traditional parallel to Samkhya's purusha-prakriti dualism, cited here as a secondary, non-Samkhya-specific anchor illustrating the dualism's wider resonance in the corpus -- not treated as a Samkhya-school primary text.
