3.46
रूपलावण्यबलवज्रसंहननत्वानि कायसंपत्
rūpa-lāvaṇya-bala-vajra-saṃhananatvāni kāya-saṃpat
The line
Perfection of the body is beauty, grace, strength, and a thunderbolt's hardness.
नेपालीमा
शरीरको सिद्धता रूप, लावण्य, बल र वज्रको कठोरता हो।
Where it sits
A definition line inside the powers, the way 2.46 defined posture. 3.47 turns the five-layer saṃyama (संयम) onto the senses.
Split: rūpa (रूप) + lāvaṇya (लावण्य) + bala (बल) + vajra (वज्र) + saṃhananatvāni (संहननत्वानि) + kāya (काय) + saṃpat (संपत्)
Sanskrit, in depth
The words
| Word | Grammar | Sense |
|---|---|---|
| rūpa (रूप) | stem | beauty of form. |
| lāvaṇya (लावण्य) | stem | grace, loveliness. |
| bala (बल) | stem | strength. |
| vajra (वज्र) | stem | a thunderbolt. Hardness of that order. |
| saṃhananatvāni (संहननत्वानि) | nominative plural, neuter | the states of compactness. The plural ending covers the four features. |
| kāya (काय) | stem | the body. |
| saṃpat (संपत्) | nominative | perfection. The predicate, from 3.45. |
The phrases
Perfection of the body is beauty, grace, strength, and the compactness of a thunderbolt. The plural -āni (आनि) sits on saṃhananatva (संहननत्व). vajra-saṃhanana (वज्रसंहनन) is “a joining as hard as a thunderbolt.” kāya-saṃpat (कायसंपत्) is the name being defined.
Sanskrit in this line
Neuter plural -āni (आनि) on a list of features, the ending only at the end. saṃpat (संपत्) stays uninflected in look, a root noun as predicate. You saw that shape with saṃvit (संवित्).
Say it back
Name the four features. They are the definition of kāya-saṃpat (कायसंपत्).