1.2.49
Mīmāṃsā Sūtra / Adhyāya 1 / 1.2.49
सतः परमविज्ञानम्
sataḥ param avijñānam
The line
Of a meaning that exists, there is afterwards a failure to cognize it.
नेपालीमा
भएको अर्थलाई पछि चिन्न नसक्नु हुन्छ।
Where it sits
This answers avijñeyāt (अविज्ञेयात्) in 1.2.38. Param and the pattern of a later non-apprehension echo 1.1.13, now applied to a meaning that is there rather than to the phoneme. Sataḥ (सतः) is the meaning granted since 1.2.40.
Split: sataḥ (सतः) + param (परम्) + avijñānam (अविज्ञानम्)
Sanskrit, in depth
The words
| Word | Grammar | Sense |
|---|---|---|
| sataḥ (सतः) | genitive singular, neuter | of what exists, of the meaning that is there |
| param (परम्) | indeclinable | afterwards, on a later hearing |
| avijñānam (अविज्ञानम्) | nominative singular, neuter | non-cognition, a failure to understand |
The phrases
A meaning can be there and still not be grasped, through carelessness or laziness. The failure does not show that the meaning is absent.
One should construct it from the verbal root, with the help of the indices in the hymn, of nirukta, the analysis of words, and of grammar. The line 'sṛṇyeva (सृण्येव) jarbharī (जर्भरी) turpharītu (तुर्फरीतु)' shows dual endings, and the hymn is marked as the Aśvins (अश्विन्)' by the close 'by this I have satisfied the wish of the Aśvins (अश्विन्).' The odd words fit as names connected with those two deities, and their parts are specified by ordinary meanings. So an obscure mantra is not a mantra without a meaning.
Sanskrit in this line
The pāṭha (पाठ) writes paramavijñānam (परमविज्ञानम्) as one string. The line is param avijñānam (अविज्ञानम्), afterwards a non-cognition. The same join was taught at 1.1.13.
Say it back
Say that a mantra one cannot yet parse still has a meaning, to be made out from its roots and its dual endings.
Next
1.2.50. The non-eternal connection has already been answered.