Quiz · 10.1–10.11
How he is to be known
Cover the answer. Read the Devanagari of the verse before you open it.
1
In 10.10, what case is yena (येन), and what question does that case answer?
Answer
Instrumental singular of yad (यद्). It answers "by which." He gives that buddhiyoga (बुद्धियोग) by which they come to him.
2
ādiḥ (आदिः) stands in front of hi (हि) in 10.2. What is recited, and which sandhi makes it?
Answer
ādir hi (आदिर्हि). Visarga after i (इ), before a voiced sound, becomes r (र्). अहम् आदिः हि aham ādiḥ hi is recited aham ādir hi (अहमादिर्हि).
3
What does 10.3 say, in one sentence?
Answer
Whoever knows me as unborn and beginningless, and as the great lord of the worlds, he, undeluded among mortals, is released from all pāpa (पाप).
4
Where do 10.1–10.11 sit in the talk between Arjuna and Kṛṣṇa (कृष्ण)?
Answer
Kṛṣṇa (कृष्ण) is speaking, before Arjuna answers. He is the source of the gods and the great sages, and they do not know his origin. The one who knows him as unborn and beginningless is undeluded. To those whose minds are on him, he gives the buddhi (बुद्धि) by which they come to him, and out of compassion he destroys the darkness born of ignorance.
5
Say 10.10 back. Which word fails the sitting if it comes out wrong?
Answer
ददामि बुद्धियोगं तं येन माम् उपयान्ति ते dadāmi buddhiyogaṃ taṃ yena mām upayānti te. If yena (येन) comes out as "whom," stay here. The gift is the understanding by which they come.