# Bhagavad Gita 8.1

**Canonical reference:** `gita.8.1`  
**Speaker:** Arjuna  
**Corpus version:** gita-1.0.0-rc.1

## Sanskrit (Devanagari)

अर्जुन उवाच।
किं तद् ब्रह्म किमध्यात्मं किं कर्म पुरुषोत्तम।
अधिभूतं च किं प्रोक्तमधिदैवं किमुच्यते ॥

## IAST

arjuna uvāca
kiṃ tad brahma kimadhyātmaṃ kiṃ karma puruṣottama
adhibhūtaṃ ca kiṃ proktamadhidaivaṃ kimucyate

## English — Kashinath Trimbak Telang, 1882

What is that Brahman what the Adhyātma and what O best of beings! is action? And what is called the Adhibhūta? And who is the Adhiyajña

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