1.1.28
Mīmāṃsā Sūtra / Adhyāya 1 / 1.1.28
अनित्यदर्शनाच् च
anityadarśanāc ca
The line
And because non-eternal persons are seen in it.
नेपालीमा
र त्यसमा अनित्य व्यक्ति देखिएकाले।
Where it sits
The Veda, under the suspicion of having a beginning, is still the subject from 1.1.27. Anitya here is the opposite of the nitya claimed for the word in 1.1.18. The charge has moved from the phoneme up to the text.
Split: anitya-darśanāt (अनित्य-दर्शनात्) + ca (च)
Sanskrit, in depth
The words
| Word | Grammar | Sense |
|---|---|---|
| anitya-darśanāt (अनित्य-दर्शनात्) | ablative singular, neuter | because of seeing what is non-eternal |
| ca (च) | indeclinable | and |
The phrases
The Veda says Babara Prāvāhaṇi (प्रावाहणि) desired, and Kusuruvinda Auddālaki (औद्दालकि) desired. Auddālaki (औद्दालकि) is a patronymic. It presents the man as the son of Uddālaka (उद्दालक).
If the text speaks of a son, the objector says the book was not there before that birth. Men who are born and who die appear in the Veda. Ca adds this to the names of the branches. Both are offered as signs that the text began.
Sanskrit in this line
Darśanāt (दर्शनात्) is again a reason-ablative. The compound is the seeing of what is anitya, a person who begins and ends.
Say it back
State this objection with the name: a man called so-and-so's son is spoken of, so the text seems to begin after a birth.