2.3
Upadeśasāhasrī / 2. Pratiṣedha (प्रतिषेध) / 2.3
पूर्वबुद्धिमबाधित्वा नोत्तरा जायते मतिः दृशिरेकः स्वयंसिद्धः फलत्वात् स न बाध्यते
pūrvabuddhim abādhitvā nottarā jāyate matiḥ dṛśir ekaḥ svayaṃsiddhaḥ phalatvāt sa na bādhyate
The line
No later notion arises without sublating the earlier one. The seer is one and self-established. He is not sublated, because what would sublate him is only a fruit.
नेपालीमा
पछिल्लो धारणा अघिल्लोलाई नबाधी उठ्दैन, र द्रष्टा एक छ, स्वयम्सिद्ध। ऊ बाधिँदैन, किनकि उसलाई बाध्ने कुरा फल मात्र हो।
Where it sits
Verse 2.2 refused the 'this' a second life as a pramāṇa (प्रमाण). Verse 2.3 says why the seer is not in the class of things that get sublated. Verse 2.4 is the picture: the man of Gandhāra (गन्धार), out of the forest.
Split: pūrva-buddhim (पूर्व-बुद्धिम्) + abādhitvā (अबाधित्वा) + na (न) + uttarā (उत्तरा) + jāyate (जायते) + matiḥ (मतिः) + dṛśiḥ (दृशिः) + ekaḥ (एकः) + svayaṃ-siddhaḥ (स्वयं-सिद्धः) + phalatvāt (फलत्वात्) + saḥ (सः) + na (न) + bādhyate (बाध्यते)
Sanskrit, in depth
The words
| Word | Grammar | Sense |
|---|---|---|
| pūrva-buddhim (पूर्व-बुद्धिम्) | accusative singular, feminine | the earlier notion. |
| abādhitvā (अबाधित्वा) | absolutive | without having sublated. a- (अ-) plus the absolutive bādhitvā (बाधित्वा), 'having cancelled.' The a- (अ-) is the 'without.' |
| na (न) | indeclinable | not. |
| uttarā (उत्तरा) | nominative singular, feminine | a later one. Agrees with matiḥ (मतिः). |
| jāyate (जायते) | present, third person singular, middle | is born. |
| matiḥ (मतिः) | nominative singular, feminine | a notion. |
| dṛśiḥ (दृशिः) | nominative singular, feminine | the seer. dṛś (दृश्) is seeing. The seer is named in the feminine here, as dṛśi (दृशि). |
| ekaḥ (एकः) | nominative singular, masculine | one. The gender has shifted toward the person who sees. Take ekaḥ (एकः) with the seer as the one seer. |
| svayaṃ-siddhaḥ (स्वयं-सिद्धः) | nominative singular, masculine | established by himself, not proved by something else. |
| phalatvāt (फलत्वात्) | ablative singular, neuter | because of being a fruit. A cancelling cognition is itself a phala (फल), a product. It appears to the seer. It does not cancel the seer it appears to. |
| saḥ (सः) | nominative singular, masculine | he, the seer. |
| na (न) | indeclinable | not. |
| bādhyate (बाध्यते) | present passive, third person singular | is sublated, is cancelled. |
The phrases
Notions can cancel notions. A later mati (मति) is born only by pushing the earlier one aside. The seer is not a mati (मति). He is eka (एक) and svayaṃsiddha (स्वयंसिद्ध). phalatvāt (फलत्वात्): the cancelling thought is a fruit that shows up for him, so it cannot be the thing that removes him.
This is why neti neti (नेति नेति), once it has done its work, is not itself cancelled by the next 'this.'
Sanskrit in this line
An absolutive with a- (अ-), abādhitvā (अबाधित्वा), is 'without having done the cancelling.' The na jāyate (न जायते) matches it: without that, the later notion is not born.
Say it back
What can cancel a notion, and what can a notion not cancel?