2.2
Upadeśasāhasrī / 2. Pratiṣedha (प्रतिषेध) / 2.2
इदंधीरिदमात्मोत्था वाचारम्भणगोचरा निषिद्धात्मोद्भवत्वात् सा न पुनर् मानतां व्रजेत्
idaṃdhīr idamātmotthā vācārambhaṇagocarā niṣiddhātmodbhavatvāt sā na punar mānatāṃ vrajet
The line
The notion 'this,' born of taking the self as a this, ranges only over what speech sets up. Since its claim to arise as the self has been negated, it should not again attain the rank of a means of knowing.
नेपालीमा
आत्मालाई यो भनी लिएर जन्मेको यो भन्ने धारणा बोलीले खडा गरेको कुरामा मात्र चल्छ। आत्मा भएर उठ्ने त्यसको दाबी खण्डन भइसकेकाले त्यो फेरि जान्ने साधनको दर्जा पाउनु हुँदैन।
Where it sits
Verse 2.1 gave the sentence idaṃ nāham (इदं नाहम्). Verse 2.2 says the defeated 'this' does not return as evidence. Verse 2.3 says a later notion cannot arise unless it has sublated the earlier one, and the seer is not the kind of thing a notion sublates.
Split: idam-dhīḥ (इदम्-धीः) + idam-ātma-utthā (इदम्-आत्म-उत्था) + vācā-ārambhaṇa-gocarā (वाचा-आरम्भण-गोचरा) + niṣiddha-ātma-udbhava-tvāt (निषिद्ध-आत्म-उद्भव-त्वात्) + sā (सा) + na (न) + punar (पुनर्) + mānatām (मानताम्) + vrajet (व्रजेत्)
Sanskrit, in depth
The words
| Word | Grammar | Sense |
|---|---|---|
| idam-dhīḥ (इदम्-धीः) | nominative singular, feminine | the thought 'this.' dhī (धी) is a notion. |
| idam-ātma-utthā (इदम्-आत्म-उत्था) | nominative singular, feminine | risen from an ātman (आत्मन्) that is taken as idam (इदम्), as a this. Agrees with dhīḥ (धीः). |
| vācā-ārambhaṇa-gocarā (वाचा-आरम्भण-गोचरा) | nominative singular, feminine | whose range is vācārambhaṇa (वाचारम्भण), 'a modification that has its beginning in speech.' The Chāndogya (छान्दोग्य) phrase for name and form. gocara (गोचर) is the range. |
| niṣiddha-ātma-udbhava-tvāt (निषिद्ध-आत्म-उद्भव-त्वात्) | ablative singular, neuter | because its arising as the self has been niṣiddha (निषिद्ध), negated. |
| sā (सा) | nominative singular, feminine | she, that dhī (धी). |
| na (न) | indeclinable | not. |
| punar (पुनर्) | indeclinable | again. |
| mānatām (मानताम्) | accusative singular, feminine | the status of a māna (मान), a measure, a means of knowing. |
| vrajet (व्रजेत्) | optative, third person singular | it should go, it should attain. |
The phrases
The thought 'this' comes from taking the self to be something you can point at. Its whole range is name and form, the thing the Chāndogya (छान्दोग्य) calls a modification seized by speech. Once that thought has been told it is not the self, it does not get to count as a pramāṇa (प्रमाण) a second time.
mānatām (मानताम्) is the abstract status, 'being an authority.' na vrajet (न व्रजेत्) refuses that status.
Sanskrit in this line
vācārambhaṇa (वाचारम्भण) is a Chāndogya (छान्दोग्य) word, 6.1.4, vācārambhaṇaṃ vikāro nāmadheyaṃ (वाचारम्भणं विकारो नामधेयं). The verse expects you to hear that sentence under gocarā (गोचरा).
Say it back
What is the range of the 'this'-thought, and what status does it not get back?