13.10
असक्तिरनभिष्वङ्गः पुत्रदारगृहादिषु ।
नित्यं च समचित्तत्वमिष्टानिष्टोपपत्तिषु ॥
asaktir anabhiṣvaṅgaḥ putradāragṛhādiṣu
nityaṃ ca samacittatvam iṣṭāniṣṭopapattiṣu
Kṛṣṇa (कृष्ण) is still speaking, to Arjuna (अर्जुन). The verse has no finite verb. The list of knowledge continues.
The verse
Non-attachment and absence of clinging toward son, wife, home, and the rest, and constant evenness of mind when the wanted and the unwanted arise.
नेपालीमा
छोरा, पत्नी, घर र अरूप्रति अनासक्ति र टाँसिने भावको अभाव, र चाहिएको र नचाहिएको आइपरे पनि मनको निरन्तर समता।
Where it sits
The list stays with qualities, attachment named by son, wife, and home, and evenness of mind named by the wanted and the unwanted as they arise.
Split: असक्तिः + अनभिष्वङ्गः + पुत्र-दार-गृह-आदिषु + नित्यम् + च + सम-चित्तत्वम् + इष्ट-अनिष्ट-उपपत्तिषु
asaktiḥ + anabhiṣvaṅgaḥ + putra-dāra-gṛha-ādiṣu + nityam + ca + sama-cittatvam + iṣṭa-aniṣṭa-upapattiṣu
Sanskrit, in depth
The words
| देवनागरी | Word | Grammar | Sense |
|---|---|---|---|
| असक्तिः | asaktiḥ | nominative singular | non-attachment. sakti (सक्ति) is sticking to. Recited asaktir (असक्तिर्). |
| अनभिष्वङ्गः | anabhiṣvaṅgaḥ | nominative singular | absence of clinging. abhiṣvaṅga (अभिष्वङ्ग) is clinging onto. |
| पुत्र-दार-गृह-आदिषु | putra-dāra-gṛha-ādiṣu | locative plural | in son, wife, home, and the rest. dāra (दार) is wife. ādi (आदि) is "and the rest." |
| नित्यम् | nityam | accusative singular neuter, used as an adverb | constantly. Always. |
| च | ca | indeclinable | and. |
| सम-चित्तत्वम् | sama-cittatvam | nominative singular | evenness of mind. sama (सम) "even," citta (चित्त) "mind," --tva (त्व) "the state." |
| इष्ट-अनिष्ट-उपपत्तिषु | iṣṭa-aniṣṭa-upapattiṣu | locative plural | when the wanted and the unwanted arise. iṣṭa (इष्ट) is the wanted, aniṣṭa (अनिष्ट) the unwanted, upapatti (उपपत्ति) the arising. Recited iṣṭāniṣṭopapattiṣu (इष्टानिष्टोपपत्तिषु). |
The phrases
asaktiḥ anabhiṣvaṅgaḥ putradāragṛhādiṣu (असक्तिः अनभिष्वङ्गः पुत्रदारगृहादिषु) names non-attachment by the people and the house it might stick to. Son, wife, home, and the rest. The locative answers "toward what," as indriyārtheṣu (इन्द्रियार्थेषु) did in 13.9.
nityaṃ ca samacittatvam (नित्यं च समचित्तत्वम्) is the next quality. And constant evenness of mind. The --tva (त्व) is the same abstract suffix as on amānitvam (अमानित्वम्) in 13.8.
iṣṭāniṣṭopapattiṣu (इष्टानिष्टोपपत्तिषु) is when that evenness is tested. In the arising of the wanted and of the unwanted. Two arrivals, one mind.
Sanskrit in this line
असक्तिः + अनभिष्वङ्गः asaktiḥ + anabhiṣvaṅgaḥ is asaktir anabhiṣvaṅgaḥ (असक्तिरनभिष्वङ्गः). Visarga after i (इ), before a vowel, becomes r (र्).
Inside anabhiṣvaṅgaḥ (अनभिष्वङ्गः), the s (स्) of svaṅga (स्वङ्ग) has become ṣ (ष्) after the i (इ) of abhi (अभि). That change is inside the word. It is a different sibilant from the r (र्) of the external visarga.
Say it back
Say the household, then the two arrivals. If samacittatvam (समचित्तत्वम्) comes out as happiness when the wanted comes, stay here. The mind is even for both.