1.1.25
Mīmāṃsā Sūtra / Adhyāya 1 / 1.1.25
तद्भूतानां क्रियार्थेन समाम्नायोऽर्थस्य तन्निमित्तत्वात्
tadbhūtānāṃ kriyārthena samāmnāyo 'rthasya tannimittatvāt
The line
The words that carry those meanings are recited together by way of the action-word, because the meaning has them as its cause.
नेपालीमा
ती अर्थ बोक्ने शब्दहरू क्रियापदको बाटोबाट सँगै पढिन्छन्, किनकि अर्थको कारण तिनीहरू हुन्।
Where it sits
This answers atad-nimittatvāt (अतद्-निमित्तत्वात्) in 1.1.24 by stating tad-nimittatvāt (तद्-निमित्तत्वात्). Artha is the same sentence-meaning. The verb is the center the other words lean on.
Split: tad-bhūtānām (तद्-भूतानाम्) + kriyā-arthena (क्रिया-अर्थेन) + samāmnāyaḥ (समाम्नायः) + arthasya (अर्थस्य) + tad-nimittatvāt (तद्-निमित्तत्वात्)
Sanskrit, in depth
The words
| Word | Grammar | Sense |
|---|---|---|
| tad-bhūtānām (तद्-भूतानाम्) | genitive plural, masculine | of the words that are present in those meanings |
| kriyā-arthena (क्रिया-अर्थेन) | instrumental singular, masculine | by the word whose meaning is the action, by the verb |
| samāmnāyaḥ (समाम्नायः) | nominative singular, masculine | the reciting together, the sentence as words uttered as one group |
| arthasya (अर्थस्य) | genitive singular, masculine | of the meaning |
| tad-nimittatvāt (तद्-निमित्तत्वात्) | ablative singular, neuter | because it has that, the word-meaning, as its cause |
The phrases
The words that bear those meanings are uttered together, held by the word for the action. There is no sentence-meaning established apart from the word-meanings, by some extra power of the heap.
Each word denotes its own meaning and is done. The meanings, once understood, convey the qualified meaning of the sentence. 'White' is understood, and it is fit to qualify a thing. The hearer who wants that qualified understanding utters the qualifying word. The sentence-meaning is that understanding. It has the word-meanings as its cause. So a sentence of eternal words can teach. From the words of 'one who desires heaven should offer the agnihotra' one understands that heaven comes by that offering.
Sanskrit in this line
Samāmnāyaḥ (समाम्नायः) is the reciting together. The pāṭha (पाठ) writes sāmāmnāyo (सामाम्नायो), with a lengthened first vowel, and tannimittattvāt (तन्निमित्तत्त्वात्), with an extra t. The line is samāmnāyaḥ (समाम्नायः) and tannimittatvāt (तन्निमित्तत्वात्).
Say it back
Be able to say that the sentence means through its word-meanings, gathered around the verb.
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