1.2.2
Mīmāṃsā Sūtra / Adhyāya 1 / 1.2.2
शास्त्रदृष्टविरोधाच् च
śāstradṛṣṭavirodhāc ca
The line
And because of conflict with the teaching and with perception.
नेपालीमा
र शिक्षासँग र प्रत्यक्षसँगको द्वन्द्वका कारण।
Where it sits
Ca adds this to the uselessness charged in 1.2.1. The sentences that do not have the act as their purpose are still the subject. No new class has been separated yet.
Split: śāstra-dṛṣṭa-virodhāt (शास्त्र-दृष्ट-विरोधात्) + ca (च)
Sanskrit, in depth
The words
| Word | Grammar | Sense |
|---|---|---|
| śāstra-dṛṣṭa-virodhāt (शास्त्र-दृष्ट-विरोधात्) | ablative singular, masculine | because of conflict with the teaching and with what is seen |
| ca (च) | indeclinable | and |
The phrases
Some sentences talk of the mind as a thief and of speech as speaking falsehood. Read as commands, they would order theft and lying. That cannot be carried out without cancelling the prohibitions of theft and lying. A made-up command and a perception do not stand as equals, so one cannot simply choose between them.
Others conflict with what is seen. By day, it is said, one sees the smoke of fire and not the flame. By night one sees the flame and not the smoke. The sentence is there to say that fire has gone from this world into the sun. Both claims fight what the eye sees. Another sentence says we do not know whether we are brahmins or not. Read as a report of ignorance, it fights the knowledge people have of themselves. Another asks who knows whether something exists in yonder world or not. Read as a real doubt, it fights the teaching that speaks of that world.
The objector puts all of these under one reason. Conflict with śāstra (शास्त्र) and with dṛṣṭa (दृष्ट) keeps the sentences from being a means of knowing.
Sanskrit in this line
The pāṭha (पाठ) writes śāstradṛṣṭāvirodhāc (शास्त्रदृष्टाविरोधाच्), with a long ā (आ), which would look like avirodha, non-conflict. The bhāṣya (भाष्य) reads virodha, conflict, and the line is śāstradṛṣṭavirodhāc (शास्त्रदृष्टविरोधाच्) ca. Before ca the final t is recited as c.
Say it back
Add the second charge, and give one plain case: a sentence that denies the flame by day fights what is seen.
Next
1.2.3. A sentence about a shining face is said to yield no fruit.