Rupa lavanya bala vajra samhananatvani kayasampat

This is the forty-seventh yogic sutra, which is contained in the third phase of the Patanjali Yoga Sutras.

Rupa lavanya bala vajra samhananatvani kayasampat, Patanjali Yoga SutraThe forty-seventh yoga sutra speaks about the absolute hardness, firmness, grace, beauty, durability, and magnificience that a body aquires through perfection.

Rupa graceful forms, appearance
Lavanya grace, beauty, charm, loveliness, ability to attract
Bala strength, force
vajra a thunderbolt, adamantine, hard, diamond, impenetrable
samhananatvani firmness, compactness
kaya body
sampat perfection, wealth

Perfection of the body consists of beauty, grace, strength, compactness and the hardness and brilliance of a diamond.

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