1.2.33
Mīmāṃsā Sūtra / Adhyāya 1 / 1.2.33
बुद्धशास्त्रात्
buddhaśāstrāt
The line
Because the meaning is already understood from the teaching.
नेपालीमा
अर्थ शिक्षाबाट पहिले नै बुझिएकाले।
Where it sits
The mantra remains the subject, and mere utterance is still the objector's claim. Buddha is the meaning already grasped. This is a new reason, not a definition of buddhi.
Split: buddha-śāstrāt (बुद्ध-शास्त्रात्)
Sanskrit, in depth
The words
| Word | Grammar | Sense |
|---|---|---|
| buddha-śāstrāt (बुद्ध-शास्त्रात्) | ablative singular, neuter | because of the teaching once the meaning is already understood |
The phrases
Even from the bare recitation the meaning is already understood. 'O agnīdh (अग्नीध्), carry the fires apart.' The agnīdh (अग्नीध्) is the priest who tends the fires. Once that is understood, what would the mantra still make known?
If the mantra is for a particular utterance, the utterance still has a use after the meaning is known. A second hearing can be a further preparation, and that concession, the objector says, already stands on his side. Uttering can be done again. Conveying a meaning that has been conveyed cannot. As a man with one shoe on does not put a second shoe on the same foot.
Sanskrit in this line
The pāṭha (पाठ) reads buddhiśāstrāt (बुद्धिशास्त्रात्), the teaching of a cognition. The bhāṣya (भाष्य) reads buddhaśāstrāt (बुद्धशास्त्रात्), and explains it as the meaning already understood from the recitation. Buddha is the past participle, understood.
Say it back
Add this reason: once the priest already knows which fires to carry, the objector says the mantra is not there to tell him.
Next
1.2.34. Some mantras speak of what is not there to be denoted.