2.6
दृग्दर्शनशक्त्योरेकात्मतेवास्मिता
dṛg-darśana-śaktyor ekātmatevāsmitā
The line
I-sense is as if the seer's power and the power of seeing were a single self.
नेपालीमा
अस्मिता मानौँ द्रष्टाको शक्ति र देख्ने शक्ति एउटै आत्मा हुन् भन्ने हो।
Where it sits
1.3 separated the seer from the activities. This line names the affliction that undoes the separation by feeling. The seer's power and the power of seeing are not the same power. asmitā (अस्मिता) is the feeling that they are.
Split: dṛś (दृश्) + darśana (दर्शन) + śaktyoḥ (शक्त्योः) + ekātmatā (एकात्मता) + iva (इव) + asmitā (अस्मिता)
Sanskrit, in depth
The words
| Word | Grammar | Sense |
|---|---|---|
| dṛś (दृश्) | stem | seeing, the seer's power. The power that is puruṣa (पुरुष). |
| darśana (दर्शन) | stem | the power of seeing. The instrument, the mind that sees. |
| śaktyoḥ (शक्त्योः) | genitive dual | of the two powers. One ending for both. |
| ekātmatā (एकात्मता) | nominative singular, feminine | the state of being a single self. |
| iva (इव) | indeclinable | as if. |
| asmitā (अस्मिता) | nominative singular, feminine | I-sense. The second affliction. |
The phrases
dṛg-darśana-śaktyoḥ (दृग्दर्शनशक्त्योः) is genitive dual: of the power of the seer and the power of seeing. They are two. ekātmatā iva (एकात्मता इव) says “as if one self.” ekātmatā (एकात्मता) + iva (इव) is ā (आ) + i (इ) = e (ए), recited ekātmateva (एकात्मतेव).
asmitā (अस्मिता) is the nominative. I-sense is that as-if. The line does not say the two powers are one self. It says the affliction is the seeming.
Sanskrit in this line
The new ending is the dual -oḥ (ओः), genitive, “of the two.” One ending, two powers. Do not read it as a plural of many. Dual is exactly two, the same number you met in -ābhyām (आभ्याम्), now in the genitive.
Say it back
Name the two powers, then the word that pretends they are one: asmitā (अस्मिता).