In the supplied attestations, all from the mūla of the Bhagavad Gītā (chapter 2), dehin ("the embodied one") denotes the self that bears or dwells within a body and persists as the body changes. The verses present it through several figures: it passes through the body's stages of childhood, youth, and age, and likewise attains another body (2.13); it discards worn-out bodies and takes on new ones as a person changes garments (2.22); it is declared eternally unslayable, present in the body of every being (2.30); and it is the embodied one from whom sense-objects withdraw when it abstains (2.59). Across these loci dehin is consistently the body-bearer distinguished from the body it occupies.
Senses
The reading surface. A later ingestion attaches a locus to a settled sense, or proposes a new one (dashed) for human triage — it never rewrites settled prose.
1 · The embodied one: the self that dwells in the body and persists unchanged through the body…settledadded v1
The embodied one: the self that dwells in the body and persists unchanged through the body's successive states (childhood, youth, age) and through the transition to another body.
smṛti (epic-philosophical)
bhagavadgita:2.13
2 · The embodied one as the bearer of bodies: that which casts off worn-out bodies and takes o…settledadded v1
The embodied one as the bearer of bodies: that which casts off worn-out bodies and takes on new ones, figured as a person discarding old garments for new.
smṛti (epic-philosophical)
bhagavadgita:2.22
3 · The embodied one as eternally unslayable, present in the body of every being.settledadded v1
The embodied one as eternally unslayable, present in the body of every being.
smṛti (epic-philosophical)
bhagavadgita:2.30
4 · The embodied one as the subject of bodily abstinence, from whom sense-objects withdraw (th…settledadded v1
The embodied one as the subject of bodily abstinence, from whom sense-objects withdraw (though the relish for them does not, until the supreme is seen).
smṛti (epic-philosophical)
bhagavadgita:2.59
Attestation concordance — tier 2, every locus
Append-only. Grows by locus as texts arrive; stays one collapsed table so the senses remain the reading surface.
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Locus
Witness
Tradition
Stratum
Snippet
bhagavadgita:2.13
Bhagavad Gītā (mūla)
smṛti (epic-philosophical)
mula
dehino 'smin yathā dehe kaumāraṃ yauvanaṃ jarā | tathā dehāntara-prāptir dhīras tatra na muhyati ||13||
v1Bhagavad Gītā mūla (ch. 1) — +4 loci 4 sense(s) drafted from 4 Gītā locus/loci.
Caveats
All four attestations are from a single source, the mūla of the Bhagavad Gītā (chapter 2); the entry reflects that single-text, single-stratum scope only.
No commentary loci (Gauḍapāda, Śaṅkara, or other) were supplied, so no commentarial positions are attributed.
The senses are figurative-contextual rather than reflecting distinct doctrinal strata; the underlying referent (the body-bearing self) is uniform across all four loci.
In 2.59 the term is used in a context of sense-restraint rather than transmigration; the gloss reflects only what that verse states about the dehin.