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mahā-bhūtāny ahańkāro
buddhir avyaktam eva ca
indriyāṇi daśaikaḿ ca
pañca cendriya-gocarāḥ
icchā dveṣaḥ sukhaḿ duḥkhaḿ
sańghātaś cetanā dhṛtiḥ
etat kṣetraḿ samāsena
sa-vikāram udāhṛtam

mahā-bhūtāni — the great elements; ahańkāraḥ — false ego; buddhiḥ — intelligence; avyaktam — the unmanifested; eva — certainly; ca — also; indriyāṇi — the senses; daśa-ekam — eleven; ca — also; pañca — five; ca — also; indriya-go-carāḥ — the objects of the senses; icchā — desire; dveṣaḥ — hatred; sukham — happiness; duḥkham — distress; sańghātaḥ — the aggregate; cetanā — living symptoms; dhṛtiḥ — conviction; etat — all this; kṣetram — the field of activities; samāsena — in summary; sa-vikāram — with interactions; udāhṛtam — exemplified.

The five great elements, false ego, intelligence, the unmanifested, the ten senses and the mind, the five sense objects, desire, hatred, happiness, distress, the aggregate, the life symptoms, and convictions — all these are considered, in summary, to be the field of activities and its interactions.

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