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Yoga-sūtra with Vyāsa's bhāṣya · 1.48
47ṛtaṃbharā tatra prajñā
Translation. There, insight (prajñā) is called “truth-bearing” (ṛtaṃbharā).
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Word by word
| surface | lemma | grammar |
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| ṛtaṃbharā | ṛtaṃbhara | pass |
| tatra | tatra | pass |
| prajñā | prajñā | pass |
How the commentary settled it
Where the verse alone is ambiguous, the reading follows Vyāsa's commentary; the deciding lines are quoted below each decision.
Construe ṛtaṃbharā as a nominative predicate or designation of the nominative subject prajñā, rather than as a separate entity.→ “There, insight is called ‘truth-bearing.’” The commentary explicitly connects the prajñā that arises with the designation ṛtaṃbharā. In its sandhi, tasyā represents tasyāḥ before initial ṛ, while ṛtaṃbhareti resolves as ṛtaṃbharā iti.
ys [1]tasmin samāhitacittasya yā prajñā jāyate tasyā ṛtaṃbhareti
For the insight that arises in one whose mind is collected in that, [the designation] is ‘truth-bearing.’
Take tatra anaphorically as ‘there, in that [state],’ not as reference to a physical place.→ The commentary directly resumes tatra with the locative tasmin and associates it with a collected mind; therefore the reference is to a meditative condition, although the precise antecedent is outside the supplied unit.
ys [1]tasmin samāhitacittasya yā prajñā jāyate
The insight which arises in one whose mind is collected in that.
Analyze ṛtaṃbhara as an object-related upapada-tatpuruṣa, ṛtaṃ bibharti, and translate it as ‘truth-bearing.’
→ Tatpuruṣa, ‘bearing truth.’ This is supported lexically by “bearing the truth in one’s self” [MW s.v. ṛtaṃbhara, 223,3]. The commentary applies the expression as a designation but does not itself decompose the compound.
Render prajñā as ‘insight’ rather than generic ‘intelligence’ or ‘wisdom.’→ “Insight” best conveys the context-specific cognition arising in a collected mind. The lexical range includes wisdom, knowledge, discrimination, and judgement [MW s.v. prajñā, 659,2], while the commentary supplies the meditative context.
ys [1]samāhitacittasya yā prajñā jāyate
The insight which arises in one whose mind is collected.
Vyāsa's commentary on this unit
1tasmin samāhitacittasya yā prajñā jāyate tasyā ṛtaṃbhareti