1.3.19
Mīmāṃsā Sūtra / Adhyāya 1 / 1.3.19
आख्या हि देशसंयोगात्
ākhyā hi deśasaṃyogāt
The line
For a regional name comes from connection with a place, and so it does not restrict the rite.
नेपालीमा
किनकि क्षेत्रको नाम ठाउँसँग जोडिएर आउँछ, यसैले त्यसले कर्म सीमित गर्दैन।
Where it sits
The regional names of 1.3.15 are still under refusal. hi gives the reason the name fails as a restriction. The rājasūya (राजसूय) is the objector's model, and it is set aside as a real class fixed by text.
Split: ākhyā (आख्या) + hi (हि) + deśa-saṃyogāt (देश-संयोगात्)
Sanskrit, in depth
The words
| Word | Grammar | Sense |
|---|---|---|
| ākhyā (आख्या) | nominative singular, feminine | a name |
| hi (हि) | indeclinable | for |
| deśa-saṃyogāt (देश-संयोगात्) | ablative singular, masculine | because of connection with a place |
The phrases
Why not a restriction by the name? Those called southerners would do the Āhnīnaibuka (आह्नीनैबुक) group. Those called northerners would do the bull sacrifice. Those called easterners would do Holākā (होलाका). The model offered is: a king, by the rājasūya (राजसूय).
The name comes from connection with a place. A man who has left the south and lives in the east or the north still does the Āhnīnaibuka (आह्नीनैबुक) group. A man of another country who has moved does not, by a rule, take up the acts of the country he has entered. So the name does not fix the rite. The king and the rājasūya (राजसूय) are a fixed class, stated by text. That is not this name.
Sanskrit in this line
ākhyā (आख्या) is feminine nominative and is the subject. deśasaṃyogāt (देशसंयोगात्) is the ablative of cause. The line does not say the name is meaningless. It says the name tracks a place.
Say it back
Say that a man who has left the south can still be doing the southern observance, so the name does not bind the rite.
Next
1.3.20. If a name came from a place, the objector says it would fail in another country.