Mūla — the verse
Gita Press numberingTranslation
Swami Gambhīrānanda · follows Śaṅkara-bhāṣyaIt has been sung of in various ways by the Rsis, separately by the different branches of Vedic texts, and also by the rational and convincing sentences themselves which are indicative of and lead to Brahman.
हिन्दी अनुवाद — Swami Tejomayānanda
(क्षेत्र-क्षेत्रज्ञ के विषय में) ऋषियों द्वारा विभिन्न और विविध छन्दों में बहुत प्रकार से गाया गया है, तथा सम्यक् प्रकार से निश्चित किये हुये युक्तियुक्त ब्रह्मसूत्र के पदों द्वारा (अर्थात् ब्रह्म के सूचक शब्दों द्वारा) भी (वैसे ही कहा गया है)।।
Pronunciation — Vaamshii
from VaamshiiWord by word
padārthaThemes
from The Thematic Companion to the Bhagavad GītāMeaning — Questions & Solutions
from Q&A with KnA“This has been sung by the sages in many ways, in distinct hymns, and also in the well-reasoned aphoristic words of the Brahma-Sūtra (brahma-sūtra-padaiś caiva hetumadbhir viniścitaiḥ).” K situates his own teaching within a tradition: the field-knower distinction is not his novelty but the settled conclusion of the Vedic seers and of the reasoned aphorisms. Whether this refers to the Bādarāyaṇa Brahma-Sūtras as we have them, or more generally to “the aphorisms that lead to Brahman”, the point stands — the teaching claims the authority of continuity (recall the paramparā of 4.1) and of reasoned determination (hetumat), not mere assertion.