1.1.18
Mīmāṃsā Sūtra / Adhyāya 1 / 1.1.18
नित्यस् तु स्याद् दर्शनस्य परार्थत्वात्
nityas tu syād darśanasya parārthatvāt
The line
But the word would be eternal, because utterance is for the sake of another person.
नेपालीमा
तर शब्द नित्य हुनेछ, किनकि उच्चारण अर्को व्यक्तिका लागि हुन्छ।
Where it sits
Śabda (शब्द), masculine, is the unspoken subject of nityaḥ (नित्यः). The replies from 1.1.12 on have cleared the objector's reasons. This line states what they were for.
Split: nityaḥ (नित्यः) + tu (तु) + syāt (स्यात्) + darśanasya (दर्शनस्य) + para-arthatvāt (पर-अर्थत्वात्)
Sanskrit, in depth
The words
| Word | Grammar | Sense |
|---|---|---|
| nityaḥ (नित्यः) | nominative singular, masculine | eternal, lasting |
| tu (तु) | indeclinable | but |
| syāt (स्यात्) | optative, third person singular, active | it would be, it can be |
| darśanasya (दर्शनस्य) | genitive singular, neuter | of the utterance, of the making-heard |
| para-arthatvāt (पर-अर्थत्वात्) | ablative singular, neuter | because it is for the sake of another, so that another may grasp the meaning |
The phrases
The accepted view is stated with tu. The word can be nitya.
Darśana (दर्शन) here is the utterance. One utters for the sake of another person, to convey a meaning. If the word perished in the very moment of utterance, the speaker could not bring that meaning to the hearer. People do convey meanings. So the word they utter is not gone at the moment of speaking.
Sanskrit in this line
Parārthatva (परार्थत्व) is the state of having para, another, as its artha, its aim. Śabara (शबर) takes darśana (दर्शन) in this line as uccāraṇa (उच्चारण), the utterance, not as a later recognition.
Say it back
State the view: the word lasts, because one person can convey a meaning to another.