1.1.32
Mīmāṃsā Sūtra / Adhyāya 1 / 1.1.32
कृते वा विनियोगः स्यात् कर्मणः संबन्धात्
kṛte vā viniyogaḥ syāt karmaṇaḥ saṃbandhāt
The line
Or, once the meaning has been put together, the application would follow from the connection with the act.
नेपालीमा
वा अर्थ जोडिसकेपछि प्रयोग कर्मसँगको सम्बन्धबाट आउनेछ।
Where it sits
Karma here is the rite, not the speaking-effort of 1.1.6. Viniyoga is new. It is the assigning that later lines will use whenever a sentence is tied to an act. The author-question is left behind. The connection does the assigning.
Split: kṛte (कृते) + vā (वा) + viniyogaḥ (विनियोगः) + syāt (स्यात्) + karmaṇaḥ (कर्मणः) + sambandhāt (सम्बन्धात्)
Sanskrit, in depth
The words
| Word | Grammar | Sense |
|---|---|---|
| kṛte (कृते) | locative singular, neuter | when the meaning has been put together |
| vā (वा) | indeclinable | or, as the further step |
| viniyogaḥ (विनियोगः) | nominative singular, masculine | application, the assigning of the sentence to its use |
| syāt (स्यात्) | optative, third person singular, active | it would be |
| karmaṇaḥ (कर्मणः) | genitive singular, neuter | of the act |
| sambandhāt (सम्बन्धात्) | ablative singular, masculine | because of the connection |
The phrases
A doubt remains. Some sentences look like the talk of a child or a madman. The trees sat a sattra. The snakes sat a sattra. An old cow sings drunken songs. A sattra is a long soma sitting, undertaken by a group of sacrificers. Trees do not sit one.
The sentences are nevertheless applied. The words expect one another. The jyotiṣṭoma (ज्योतिष्टोम), the soma rite built on the model of praise-songs and offerings, is to be done. With what? With soma. For what? For heaven. In what manner? In the manner the text goes on to state. That mutual expectation is the connection with the act. From it the application follows, once the word-meanings have been put together.
And the strange sentences are praise of the sitting. Insentient trees undertook this sattra. How much more should learned men. Ordinary speech praises in the same shape: even the deer do not wander at twilight, how much more a learned man. The Veda is not emptied by those sentences. The injunction remains the mark of dharma (धर्म).
Sanskrit in this line
Kṛte (कृते) is the locative of the past participle kṛta (कृत). Karmaṇaḥ (कर्मणः) is the genitive of karman. Sambandha recalls the connection of word and meaning, now the connection of those meanings with the act.
Say it back
Close the first pāda (पाद): the sentence is applied by its connection with the act, and a sentence about trees sitting a sattra is praise of the sattra.
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