1.2.26
Mīmāṃsā Sūtra / Adhyāya 1 / 1.2.26
हेतुर् वा स्यादर्थवत्वोपपत्तिभ्याम्
hetur vā syād arthavatvopapattibhyām
The line
Or it might be a reason, by having a meaning and by fitting.
नेपालीमा
वा त्यो हेतु हुन सक्छ, अर्थ भएकाले र मिलेकाले।
Where it sits
Vā (वा) opens a new alternative after the extra-command reading was refused. The sentence under discussion is now the reason-shaped sentence, with the winnowing basket as the case. Hetu replaces stuti as the role someone wants to give it.
Split: hetuḥ (हेतुः) + vā (वा) + syāt (स्यात्) + artha-vatva-upapattibhyām (अर्थ-वत्व-उपपत्तिभ्याम्)
Sanskrit, in depth
The words
| Word | Grammar | Sense |
|---|---|---|
| hetuḥ (हेतुः) | nominative singular, masculine | a reason |
| vā (वा) | indeclinable | or |
| syāt (स्यात्) | optative, third person singular, active | it would be |
| artha-vatva-upapattibhyām (अर्थ-वत्व-उपपत्तिभ्याम्) | instrumental dual, neuter | by having a meaning and by fitting |
The phrases
Another group sounds like a reason. He offers with the śūrpa (शूर्प), for by that food is made. The śūrpa (शूर्प) is the winnowing basket, the flat basket that separates grain. The homa is a pouring of an oblation into the fire. The doubt is whether the work of this sentence is praise or a reason.
The first finding is that it is a reason. Making food would be the reason for offering with the basket. In the world a reason is not taught where cause and effect are not already known. In the Veda the sentence could teach it. The purpose would be that any other food-making tool, a spoon or a pot, might then also be a tool of the offering. The reason-reading has a meaning, and it fits beside the injunction. Those are the two supports named in the dual. The word 'for' is direct speech for a reason, whereas praise would be an indirect understanding. And if the basket does not directly make food, praise of it would have nothing to stand on.
Sanskrit in this line
Arthavatva is the state of possessing an artha. Upapatti is fitting. The ending bhyām (भ्याम्) is instrumental dual, so the two abstracts are one dvandva.
Say it back
State the alternative with the basket: maybe 'for by that food is made' gives the reason, and then a pot might do as well.
Next
1.2.27. It is praise, because the word is prior, and the other tools are not enjoined.