1.2.37
Mīmāṃsā Sūtra / Adhyāya 1 / 1.2.37
स्वाध्यायवदवचनात्
svādhyāyavad avacanāt
The line
As in personal recitation, because there is no conveying of the meaning.
नेपालीमा
स्वाध्यायमा जस्तै, अर्थ पुर्याउने काम नभएकाले।
Where it sits
The mantra is still the subject, and the utterance-only claim is still the objector's conclusion. Svādhyāya (स्वाध्याय) is a fresh situation, the study hour, not a new rite. It is offered as the place where the use of a mantra is visible.
Split: svādhyāya-vat (स्वाध्याय-वत्) + avacanāt (अवचनात्)
Sanskrit, in depth
The words
| Word | Grammar | Sense |
|---|---|---|
| svādhyāya-vat (स्वाध्याय-वत्) | indeclinable | as in one's own recitation |
| avacanāt (अवचनात्) | ablative singular, neuter | because there is no statement, no conveying of the meaning |
The phrases
Svādhyāya (स्वाध्याय) is the student's own recitation of his branch, the daily repeating by which he keeps the text. At that time a boy recites a mantra such as the one about the pūrṇikā (पूर्णिका) waters carrying.
He is not practicing the conveying of that mantra's meaning. He is working to fix the sequence of syllables. One practices what one needs. From the practice of utterance, the objector gathers that the need is the utterance.
Sanskrit in this line
The pāṭha (पाठ) writes svādhyāyavadvacanāt (स्वाध्यायवद्वचनात्), vat plus vacanāt (वचनात्). The bhāṣya (भाष्य) reads avacanāt (अवचनात्), the absence of a statement of the meaning, and describes the boy fixing syllables rather than the sense. Vat means like.
Say it back
Explain svādhyāya (स्वाध्याय) in plain words: the student repeats sounds. The objector says that repetition shows what the mantra is for.