1.1.22
Mīmāṃsā Sūtra / Adhyāya 1 / 1.1.22
प्रख्याभावाच् च योगस्य
prakhyābhāvāc ca yogasya
The line
And because a conjunction with a material cause is not cognized.
नेपालीमा
र उपादान कारणसँगको संयोग नजानिने भएकाले।
Where it sits
Ca adds this to anapekṣatvāt (अनपेक्षत्वात्). The eternal word is still the subject. Yoga is the joining the objector would need if air produced the word.
Split: prakhyā-abhāvāt (प्रख्या-अभावात्) + ca (च) + yogasya (योगस्य)
Sanskrit, in depth
The words
| Word | Grammar | Sense |
|---|---|---|
| prakhyā-abhāvāt (प्रख्या-अभावात्) | ablative singular, feminine | because of the absence of a cognition |
| ca (च) | indeclinable | and |
| yogasya (योगस्य) | genitive singular, masculine | of a conjunction, of a joining with a material cause |
The phrases
A teaching of pronunciation says that air becomes sound. If that were so, the word would be a particular arrangement of air, and we would recognize airy parts in it, as we recognize threads in a cloth.
We do not. We also do not touch airy parts in the word. There is no cognition of that conjunction. So the word is not a product of air, and the account that would make it perish with the air does not get a grip.
Sanskrit in this line
Prakhyā (प्रख्या) is cognition. Its abhāva (अभाव), in the ablative, governs yogasya. Before the voiced ca, the final t of abhāvāt (अभावात्) is recited as d.
Say it back
Remember: we cognize the word, and we do not cognize it as made of air.