This is Telang’s translation of two very difficult, yet very instructive phrases. In the _Gītā_ the word _prakriti_ is used, first for the primeval matter of the Sānkhya system (III, 27; 29; IX, 8, 10, 12; XIII, 19, 20, 23, 29), and secondly for the primeval matter of personal character, each man’s natural disposition (III, 33; VII, 20; XI, 51; XVIII, 59). There is then a third class of passages in which the word is used in the Sānkhyan sense, but, _by the addition of a personal pronoun_, _prakriti_ is made to belong to Krishna personally (VII, 4, 5; IX, 7, 13). Here we have one of the devices our author employed to give the great old phrases a vivid personal colouring. Now such a phrase as “my prakriti” is already ambiguous; so we are not surprised to meet with two passages, in which it is impossible to tell whether the meaning is metaphysical or ethical (IV, 6; IX, 8). Probably the author intended to suggest both meanings. Most translators take the meaning to be metaphysical, but Telang may be right in taking it as ethical: Krishna is regarded as the ideal of Action Yoga. For a similar use of the personal pronoun compare _sarvakarmāni mayi sannyasya_ (XVIII, 57) with _sarvakarmāni sannyasya_ of the _Paramahansopanishad_. Pages 706, 708 and 709 of Jacob’s _Concordance to the Principal Upanishads and Bhagavadgītā_ are peculiarly instructive in this connection. Footnote 104: IV, 14; IX, 9. Footnote 105: X, 12, 20. Footnote 106: III, 3; IV, 36-38; XII, 12. Footnote 107: XII, 12; XIII, 24. Footnote 108: II, 47-53; III, 7, 30; IV, 14-23; V, 2; VI, 1; XII, 12; XVIII, 1-11. Footnote 109: VII, 13-14; XII, 20. Footnote 110: VII, 15; IX, 11-12; XVI, 6-20. Footnote 111: II, 61; VII, 14; XII, 6; XVIII, 57. Footnote 112: XII, 2. Footnote 113: VI, 14, 31; IX, 13-14, 22, 30, 34; X, 8-10; XII, 2, 6-7, 14. Footnote 114: IV, 10; VII, 1, 29; IX, 32. Footnote 115: VI, 14; X, 9; XVIII, 57-58. Footnote 116: VIII, 5, 7, 14. Footnote 117: X, 3; XVIII, 66. Footnote 118: IV, 14; IX, 28; XVIII, 49. Footnote 119: V, 29; VI, 15; XVIII, 62. Footnote 120: X, 11. Footnote 121: VI, 15; VIII, 15. Footnote 122: IV, 9; VII, 19; VIII, 5, 7, 15-16; IX, 25, 28, 32, 34; XII, 8; XIII, 18; XIV, 2; XVIII, 55-56, 62, 65. Footnote 123: X, 2. Footnote 124: X, 1-3, 20. Footnote 125: IX, 23. Footnote 126: VII, 21-22. Footnote 127: IX, 29. Footnote 128: IX, 22; X, 7-11. CHAPTER II. PLATO’S JUST MAN. We must now leave the land of Bhārata and seek the shores of Greece.