1.1.10
Mīmāṃsā Sūtra / Adhyāya 1 / 1.1.10
प्रकृतिविकृत्योश् च
prakṛtivikṛtyoś ca
The line
And because of the original and the modification.
नेपालीमा
अनि प्रकृति र विकृतिका कारण।
Where it sits
Ca continues the objector's list. The word is still the thing said to be non-eternal. The pair will be answered by saying that another phoneme is not a modification.
Split: prakṛti-vikṛtyoḥ (प्रकृति-विकृत्योः) + ca (च)
Sanskrit, in depth
The words
| Word | Grammar | Sense |
|---|---|---|
| prakṛti-vikṛtyoḥ (प्रकृति-विकृत्योः) | genitive dual, feminine | of the original and the modification |
| ca (च) | indeclinable | and |
The phrases
Take dadhi atra, the curd, here. In continuous speech it is said dadhy atra. Teachers call the vowel i the original and the consonant y the modification.
What undergoes modification is, on this view, non-eternal. The likeness of y to i is offered as the sign that one has changed into the other.
Sanskrit in this line
The two stems are one dvandva in the genitive dual. The pāṭha (पाठ) leaves a space in prakṛti (प्रकृति) vikṛtyoḥ (विकृत्योः). The line is the single compound prakṛtivikṛtyoḥ (प्रकृतिविकृत्योः).
Say it back
Remember the pair from sandhi: i as original, y as modification.