1.2.3
Mīmāṃsā Sūtra / Adhyāya 1 / 1.2.3
तथा फलाभावात्
tathā phalābhāvāt
The line
Likewise, because there is no fruit.
नेपालीमा
त्यस्तै, फल नभएकाले।
Where it sits
The same sentences remain the subject. Phala is new. It returns when a sentence seems to name the result of an act.
Split: tathā (तथा) + phala-abhāvāt (फल-अभावात्)
Sanskrit, in depth
The words
| Word | Grammar | Sense |
|---|---|---|
| tathā (तथा) | indeclinable | likewise |
| phala-abhāvāt (फल-अभावात्) | ablative singular, neuter | because of the absence of a fruit |
The phrases
The brāhmaṇa (ब्राह्मण) of the Garga three-night, a soma rite of three days associated with that name, says: his face shines, who knows thus. If that only reports a fact, it does no ritual work. If it reports the fruit of study, there is no means here for a fruit that arrives later.
A second example is of the same shape. A horse fit for speed is born in his line, who knows thus. Tathā (तथा) puts the absence of a fruit beside the uselessness already claimed. Whether such a sentence is itself an injunction of a fruit is a question kept for later. Here the charge is that no fruit is established.
Sanskrit in this line
The pāṭha (पाठ) joins tathāphalābhāvāt (तथाफलाभावात्). The line is tathā (तथा) phalābhāvāt (फलाभावात्). Abhāva (अभाव) is absence, as in 1.1.20.
Say it back
Remember the third charge with the face: a sentence that says the knower's face shines has not shown a fruit.
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1.2.4. If one offering obtained every desire, the other rites would be idle.