Verse 17.17

Sanskrit text, Unicode transliteration, Word-for-word and English translation of verse 17.17:

श्रद्धया परया तप्तं तपस् तत् त्रि-विधं नरैः ।
अफलाकाङ्क्षिभिर् युक्तैः सात्त्विकं परिचक्षते ॥ १७ ॥

śraddhayā parayā taptaṃ tapas tat tri-vidhaṃ naraiḥ |
aphalākāṅkṣibhir yuktaiḥ sāttvikaṃ paricakṣate || 17 ||

śraddhayā–faith; parayā–with great; taptam–executed; tapaḥ–austerity; tat–this; tri-vidham–threefold, in goodness, passion and ignorance; naraiḥ–by men; aphala-ākāṅkṣibhiḥ–without desire for results; yuktaiḥ–of concentrated and undivided mind; sāttvikam–in the quality of goodness; paricakṣate–is said to be.

This threefold austerity performed with great faith and one-pointed attention by those who are free from desire for remuneration is said by learned persons to be governed by the quality of goodness.

Commentary: Sārārtha-Varṣiṇī Ṭīkā

(By Śrīla Viśvanātha Cakravartī Ṭhākura; the innermost intention of the commentary named ‘the shower of essential meanings’)

The word tri-vidham refers to austerities of body, speech and mind that are endowed with the symptoms described above.