Shankaracharya's commentary, trans. Alladi Mahadeva Sastry (1897)
[1]MISSING — SH Ch.17 V3 not indexed; Ganguli and Telang used as primary.
BG 17.3
सत्त्वानुरूपा सर्वस्य श्रद्धा भवति भारत । श्रद्धामयो ऽयं पुरुषो यो यच्छ्रद्धाः स एव सः ॥
sattvānurūpā sarvasya śraddhā bhavati bhārata | śraddhā-mayo 'yaṃ puruṣo yo yac-chraddhāḥ sa eva saḥ ||
"Faith follows one's inner nature. The person IS their śraddhā — whatever one's faith is, that is exactly what one is."
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Swami Swarupananda, Srimad Bhagavad Gita (1909)
[4]The Shraddha of each is according to his natural disposition, O descendant of Bharata. The man consists of his Shraddha; he verily is what his Shraddha is.
K.T. Telang, Sacred Books of the East Vol. 8 (1882)
[9]The faith of every one, O Arjuna, is conformable to his nature. A person here is full of faith; and whatever is one's faith, one is even that.
K.M. Ganguli, The Mahabharata, Bhishma Parva (1883–96)
[13]The faith of one, O Bharata, is conformable to his own nature. A being here is full of faith; and whatever is one's faith, one is even that.