Karika 12

प्रीत्यप्रीतिविषादात्मकाः प्रकाशप्रवृत्तिनियमार्थाः।
अन्योन्याभिभवाश्रयजननमिथुनवृत्तयश्च गुणाः॥ १२॥

Translation by Henry Thomas Colebrooke (1837): The qualities respectively consist in pleasure, pain, and dulness; are adapted to manifestation, activity, and restraint; mutually domineer; rest on each other; produce each other; consort together; and are reciprocally present.

Translation by John Davies (1881): The modes have a joyous, grievous, and stupefying nature. They serve for manifestation, activity, and restraint: they mutually subdue and support each other, produce each other, consort together, and take each other's condition.

Translation by Ganganath Jha (1896): The Attributes are of the nature of love, aversion, and stupefaction. They are adapted to illumination, activity, and restraint; and they mutually subdue, and support, and produce each other and consort together (for one purpose).

Translation by Nandalal Sinha (1915): The Guṇas possess the nature of pleasure, pain and dulness; serve the purpose of illumination, activity, and restraint; and perform the function of mutual domination, dependence, production, and consociation.

Translation by Har Dutt Sharma (1933): The Attributes are of the nature of pleasure, pain and delusion; they are adapted to illuminate, to activate and to restrain. They mutually suppress, support, produce, consort and exist.

Translation by Radhanath Phukan (1960): The Guṇas give rise to delight, sorrow and indifference, they illumine, accelerate and restrain. These, their functions, they discharge, acting together, suppressing or helping each other, one of them working at a time with the co-operation of the other two.

Translation by Swami Virupakshananda (1995): The attributes are of the nature of pleasure, pain and delusion; they serve the purpose of illumination, action and restraint and they are mutually dominating and supporting, productive and cooperative.

Translation by G. Srinivasan (recent): Just as the human being undergoes, when under stress, a three stage transfer from a state of buoyant feelings through a calm state to a state of utter despair; the three interactions of the Guna are from a state of free and mobile expansion through a balanced and resonant interface to a state of compact static contraction. As a result the three states are capable of mutually interacting to override or strengthen or weaken, one or both, at the expense of the remaining aspects; be creative or destructive as a whole; associate or join or pair or combine to form groups; and also exist by itself as self supporting resonant or dynamic entity.