3.7
त्रयमन्तरङ्गं पूर्वेभ्यः
trayam antaraṅgaṃ pūrvebhyaḥ
The line
These three are inner limbs, compared with the earlier ones.
नेपालीमा
अघिल्लासँग दाँज्दा यी तीन भित्री अङ्ग हुन्।
Where it sits
3.8 will immediately qualify this. Inner is a comparison, not an absolute. Relative to seedless samādhi (समाधि), even these three are outer.
Split: trayam (त्रयम्) + antaraṅgam (अन्तरङ्गम्) + pūrvebhyaḥ (पूर्वेभ्यः)
Sanskrit, in depth
The words
| Word | Grammar | Sense |
|---|---|---|
| trayam (त्रयम्) | nominative singular, neuter | the three. The inner three. |
| antaraṅgam (अन्तरङ्गम्) | nominative singular, neuter | an inner limb. antar (अन्तर्) “inner,” aṅga (अङ्ग) “limb.” |
| pūrvebhyaḥ (पूर्वेभ्यः) | ablative plural | than the earlier ones. Compared with the limbs before them. |
The phrases
The three are an inner limb relative to the earlier ones. pūrvebhyaḥ (पूर्वेभ्यः) is ablative plural, “from the earlier,” used as “compared with.” Yama through pratyāhāra (प्रत्याहार) are the earlier. Holding, meditation, and samādhi (समाधि) are inner relative to those.
Sanskrit in this line
Ablative plural -ebhyaḥ (एभ्यः) means “from the many,” and with a comparison it means “than.” pūrva (पूर्व) “earlier” in the ablative plural is pūrvebhyaḥ (पूर्वेभ्यः). Comparison in Sanskrit is often an ablative, not a separate word for “than.”
Say it back
Say inner relative to what. The ablative is the “than.”
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3.8. Even they are outer limbs, compared with seedless samādhi.