महाभारतः mahābhārataḥ - book-14, chapter-34, verse-12

वासुदेव उवाच ।
मनो मे ब्राह्मणं विद्धि बुद्धिं मे विद्धि ब्राह्मणीम् ।
क्षेत्रज्ञ इति यश्चोक्तः सोऽहमेव धनंजय ॥१२॥

12. vāsudeva uvāca ,
mano me brāhmaṇaṁ viddhi buddhiṁ me viddhi brāhmaṇīm ,
kṣetrajña iti yaścoktaḥ so'hameva dhanaṁjaya.

12. vāsudevaḥ uvāca manaḥ me brāhmaṇaṃ
viddhi buddhiṃ me viddhi
brāhmaṇīm kṣetrajñaḥ iti yaḥ ca
uktaḥ saḥ aham eva dhanaṃjaya

12. vāsudevaḥ uvāca he dhanaṃjaya,
me manaḥ brāhmaṇaṃ viddhi,
me buddhiṃ brāhmaṇīm viddhi.
yaḥ ca kṣetrajñaḥ iti uktaḥ,
saḥ aham eva (asmi).

12. Vāsudeva said: Know my mind to be the brahmin, and know my intellect (buddhi) to be the brāhmaṇī. And he who is spoken of as the knower of the field (kṣetrajña)—that indeed is I myself, O Dhanañjaya.

Words meanings summery:

• वासुदेवः (vāsudevaḥ) - Vāsudeva, Krishna

• उवाच (uvāca) - said, spoke

• मनः (manaḥ) - mind, intellect, thought

• मे (me) - my, to me

• ब्राह्मणं (brāhmaṇaṁ) - Brahmin (accusative)

• विद्धि (viddhi) - know, understand

• बुद्धिं (buddhiṁ) - intellect, understanding, discernment

• मे (me) - my, to me

• विद्धि (viddhi) - know, understand

• ब्राह्मणीम् (brāhmaṇīm) - female Brahmin (accusative)

• क्षेत्रज्ञः (kṣetrajñaḥ) - knower of the field, the soul

• इति (iti) - thus, so, particle indicating direct speech or defining a term

• यः (yaḥ) - who, which

• च (ca) - and, also

• उक्तः (uktaḥ) - spoken, said, declared

• सः (saḥ) - that, he

• अहम् (aham) - I

• एव (eva) - indeed, certainly, only, just

• धनंजय (dhanaṁjaya) - O Dhanañjaya (Arjuna)

Words meanings and morphology

वासुदेवः (vāsudevaḥ) - Vāsudeva, Krishna

(proper noun)

Nominative, masculine, singular of vāsudeva

vāsudeva - son of Vasudeva, Krishna

उवाच (uvāca) - said, spoke

(verb)

3rd person , singular, active, perfect (liṭ) of vac

Root: vac (class 2)

मनः (manaḥ) - mind, intellect, thought

(noun)

Accusative, neuter, singular of manas

manas - mind, intellect, understanding, thought, faculty of thought

मे (me) - my, to me

(pronoun)

Genitive, singular of aham

aham - I

Note: Enclitic form of the genitive of 'I', meaning 'my'.

ब्राह्मणं (brāhmaṇaṁ) - Brahmin (accusative)

(noun)

Accusative, masculine, singular of brāhmaṇa

brāhmaṇa - Brahmin, relating to Brahman

विद्धि (viddhi) - know, understand

(verb)

2nd person , singular, active, imperative (loṭ) of vid

Root: vid (class 2)

बुद्धिं (buddhiṁ) - intellect, understanding, discernment

(noun)

Accusative, feminine, singular of buddhi

buddhi - intellect, understanding, perception, discernment, reason

Derived from root budh (to know, perceive)

Root: budh (class 1)

मे (me) - my, to me

(pronoun)

Genitive, singular of aham

aham - I

Note: Enclitic form of the genitive of 'I', meaning 'my'.

विद्धि (viddhi) - know, understand

(verb)

2nd person , singular, active, imperative (loṭ) of vid

Root: vid (class 2)

ब्राह्मणीम् (brāhmaṇīm) - female Brahmin (accusative)

(noun)

Accusative, feminine, singular of brāhmaṇī

brāhmaṇī - a female Brahmin, wife of a Brahmin

क्षेत्रज्ञः (kṣetrajñaḥ) - knower of the field, the soul

(noun)

Nominative, masculine, singular of kṣetrajña

kṣetrajña - knower of the field (body), the soul, individual consciousness, Purusha

Compound of kṣetra (field, body) + jña (knower)

इति (iti) - thus, so, particle indicating direct speech or defining a term

(indeclinable)

यः (yaḥ) - who, which

(pronoun)

Nominative, masculine, singular of yad

yad - who, which, what

च (ca) - and, also

(indeclinable)

उक्तः (uktaḥ) - spoken, said, declared

(adjective)

Nominative, masculine, singular of vac

vac - to speak, to say, to declare

Past Passive Participle

Past passive participle of root vac (to speak)

Root: vac (class 2)

सः (saḥ) - that, he

(pronoun)

Nominative, masculine, singular of tad

tad - that, he, she, it

अहम् (aham) - I

(pronoun)

Nominative, singular of aham

aham - I (first person singular pronoun)

एव (eva) - indeed, certainly, only, just

(indeclinable)

धनंजय (dhanaṁjaya) - O Dhanañjaya (Arjuna)

(proper noun)

Vocative, masculine, singular of dhanaṃjaya

dhanaṁjaya - conqueror of wealth (an epithet of Arjuna)