1.2.30
Mīmāṃsā Sūtra / Adhyāya 1 / 1.2.30
यदि च हेतुरवतिष्ठेत निर्देशात् सामान्यादिति चेदव्यवस्था विधीनां स्यात्
yadi ca hetur avatiṣṭheta nirdeśāt sāmānyād iti ced avyavasthā vidhīnāṃ syāt
The line
And if the reason stood, it would stand by the indication of the one tool; if you appeal to the common property, the injunctions would have no fixed boundary.
नेपालीमा
र यदि हेतु अड्थ्यो भने एउटै साधनको सङ्केतले अड्थ्यो। साझा गुण समात्दा विधिहरूको अडिएको सीमा हुँदैन।
Where it sits
Hetu is the alternative of 1.2.26, now closed. Vidhīnām (विधीनाम्) are the injunctions those sentences would unsettle. Avyavasthā (अव्यवस्था) is the cost of letting the reason travel. The basket sentence remains praise.
Split: yadi (यदि) + ca (च) + hetuḥ (हेतुः) + avatiṣṭheta (अवतिष्ठेत) + nirdeśāt (निर्देशात्) + sāmānyāt (सामान्यात्) + iti (इति) + cet (चेत्) + avyavasthā (अव्यवस्था) + vidhīnām (विधीनाम्) + syāt (स्यात्)
Sanskrit, in depth
The words
| Word | Grammar | Sense |
|---|---|---|
| yadi (यदि) | indeclinable | if |
| ca (च) | indeclinable | and |
| hetuḥ (हेतुः) | nominative singular, masculine | the reason |
| avatiṣṭheta (अवतिष्ठेत) | optative, third person singular, middle | it were to stand |
| nirdeśāt (निर्देशात्) | ablative singular, masculine | because of the indication, the pointing to one tool |
| sāmānyāt (सामान्यात्) | ablative singular, neuter | from the common property |
| iti (इति) | indeclinable | thus |
| cet (चेत्) | indeclinable | if |
| avyavasthā (अव्यवस्था) | nominative singular, feminine | absence of a fixed boundary |
| vidhīnām (विधीनाम्) | genitive plural, masculine | of the injunctions |
| syāt (स्यात्) | optative, third person singular, active | there would be |
The phrases
Even if making food were a reason that could cover spoons and pots, it would still stop at the basket. The word indicates the basket. It says: because food is made with the basket, one offers with the basket. A strong wind blew, and therefore my house burned. That does not teach that a strong wind burns a house where there is no fire.
If you say 'by the common property,' whatever makes food, even a drinking tube, would become a tool of the offering. The injunctions would have no fixed boundary. As far as the word 'he offers' reached, one would be offering with a food-making thing, and nothing would settle which thing. On the praise reading the basket alone is praised. 'By that food is made' tells an episode for the sake of commendation, not for the sake of the news. A sentence shaped like a reason still has praise as its work.
Sanskrit in this line
The pāṭha (पाठ) reads avasthā (अवस्था), a fixed condition. The bhāṣya (भाष्य) reads avyavasthā (अव्यवस्था), the absence of a fixed boundary, and says the injunction would not settle on any one tool. Avatiṣṭheta (अवतिष्ठेत) is the optative middle of ava-sthā (अव-स्था). Iti cet marks the attempt to save the reason by a common property.
Say it back
Say what goes wrong if every food-making tool inherits the offering: the command would no longer pick out the basket.
Next
1.2.31. Mantras are said to help by being uttered, because a sentence still assigns them.