1.7
Tattvārtha Sūtra / Adhyāya 1 / 1.7
निर्देशस्वामित्वसाधनाधिकरणस्थितिविधानतः
nirdeśasvāmitvasādhanādhikaraṇasthitividhānataḥ
The line
A thing is set out by definition, by whose it is, by its means, by its place, by how long it lasts, and by its divisions.
नेपालीमा
वस्तु परिभाषाले, कसको हो भन्नेले, साधनले, ठाउँले, कतिञ्जेल रहन्छ भन्नेले र विभागले बताइन्छ।
Where it sits
1.6 named the tools of knowing. 1.7 names the slots a full account uses. 1.8 adds a second list of slots: number, place, time, and the rest.
Split: nirdeśa-svāmitva-sādhana-adhikaraṇa-sthiti-vidhānatas (निर्देश-स्वामित्व-साधन-अधिकरण-स्थिति-विधानतस्)
Sanskrit, in depth
The words
| Word | Grammar | Sense |
|---|---|---|
| nirdeśa-svāmitva-sādhana-adhikaraṇa-sthiti-vidhānatas (निर्देश-स्वामित्व-साधन-अधिकरण-स्थिति-विधानतस्) | indeclinable, ablative in sense | by nirdeśa (निर्देश), pointing it out; by svāmitva (स्वामित्व), whose it is; by sādhana (साधन), what brings it about; by adhikaraṇa (अधिकरण), where it sits; by sthiti (स्थिति), how long it stays; by vidhāna (विधान), how it is divided. -tas (-तस्) again means 'by.' |
The phrases
One word. The word carried forward is the teaching of a tattva (तत्त्व), or of a thing under discussion. The sūtra (सूत्र) does not repeat it.
These six are the questions a later line answers when it takes up one tattva (तत्त्व). This adhyāya (अध्याय) only names the questions.
Sanskrit in this line
Six stems, and -tas (-तस्) on the last. Same job as in 1.5. Read the compound from vidhāna (विधान).
Say it back
Say the six questions, in order.
Next
1.8. And by existence, number, field, extent, interval, state, and fewness or manyness.