The Bhagavadgîtâ, with the Sanatsugâtîya and the Anugîtâ — SBE Vol. 8 (trans. K. T. Telang, 1882)
The translator’s English as printed (K. T. Telang). The original-language text is not held; names are romanised as the translator printed them.
1 This illustrates the existence of the qualities as one body. Even the enlightening sun, which embodies the quality of goodness, produces effects which belong to the other qualities. The fear and sorrow which evil-doers, that is thieves, feel, is an effect of the rising of the sun, which appertains to the quality of darkness, and the heat as being the cause of vexation and consequent delusion to travellers, appertains to the quality of passion. ? Le. the days of the moon’s conjunction or opposition.
* I understand this to mean that in the ‘immovable entities’ the three qualities co-exist ; the birth in the lower species is an effect of darkness ; the variable qualities, viz. the heat, &c., as Arguna Misra says, are the properties of passion; and the oleaginous properties among them appertain to goodness, as, says Arguna Misra, they are sources of pleasure (cf. Gita, p. 118). Nīlakaṇṭha says, ‘Immovable entities being very unintelligent, darkness is very much developed among them,’ but this last, as an interpretation of tiryagbhavagata, appears to me to be alike unwarranted and inappropriate here.
* Does this mean the period about the close of one and beginning of another yuga or age? That is the only sense ejusdem generis with the words preceding it that I can think of; yet the jump from years to yuga-sandhis is a long one. ° Cf. Gita, p. 120. With reference to some, at least, of the things enumerated here, the division would be rather fanciful.
1 This illustrates how the qualities exist as a single body. Even the enlightening sun, which embodies the quality of goodness, produces effects belonging to the other qualities. The fear and sorrow that evil-doers — that is, thieves — feel is an effect of the sun's rising, and appertains to the quality of darkness; and its heat, as the cause of vexation and consequent delusion to travellers, appertains to the quality of passion. ² I.e. the days of the moon's conjunction or opposition.
* I take this to mean that in the 'immovable entities' all three qualities coexist: birth in the lower species is an effect of darkness; the variable qualities — heat and so on — are, as Arjuna Misra says, properties of passion; and the oleaginous properties among them belong to goodness, since, as Arjuna Misra says, they are sources of pleasure (cf. Gita, p. 118). Nīlakaṇṭha says, 'Immovable entities being very unintelligent, darkness is very much developed among them,' but this reading of tiryagbhavagata seems to me both unwarranted and inappropriate here.
* Does this mean the period around the close of one yuga or age and the beginning of the next? That is the only sense I can think of that fits with the words preceding it; yet the leap from years to yuga-sandhis is a considerable one. ° Cf. Gita, p. 120. For at least some of the things listed here, the division would be rather fanciful.