Canonical Ref: YS 1.8
Sanskrit (Devanāgarī)
विपर्ययो मिथ्याज्ञानमतद्रूपप्रतिष्ठम्
English Scholarly Translation
Wrong knowledge is a false conception of a thing whose real form does not correspond to such a mistaken conception
व्याख्या / Traditional Commentary & Notes
Classical Exegesis
Misconstrual (viparyayaḥ) is illusory (mithyā) knowledge (jñānam) based (pratiṣṭham) on apperance (rūpa) , not That (atad)
Canonical CTS URN Reference
Pātañjala Yoga Sūtras, YS 1.8. Poorvam Open Research Engine (PORE) Corpus.