vijātīya-pratyayāntarāvyavahitam eka-cintanaṁ dhyānam |
(Govinda-bhāṣya and Śrī-bhāṣya on Vedānta-sūtra: 4.1.7)
“Meditation (dhyāna) means thought of one [i.e., one subject] uninterrupted by other, dissimilar cognitions.”
dhyānaṁ ca taila-dhārāvad avicchinna-smṛti-santāna-rūpam |
(Śrī-bhāṣya on Vedānta-sūtra: 1.1.1)
“And meditation (dhyāna) is of the nature of a continuous flow of uninterrupted remembrance resembling a stream of oil.”
bhinna-pravṛtti-nimittasya śabdasyaikasminn arthe vṛttiḥ sāmānādhikaraṇyam |
(Kaśikā-vṛttiḥ on Aṣṭadhyāyī 2.1.49)
“Use of a word which has a different cause of usage [than the word already in use] for [i.e., to describe] one object is [called] common locusness [alt., co-ordinate predication] (sāmānyādhikaraṇyam).”
