1.3.29
Mīmāṃsā Sūtra / Adhyāya 1 / 1.3.29
एकदेशत्वाच् च विभाक्तिव्यत्यये स्यात्
ekadeśatvāc ca vibhāktivyatyaye syāt
The line
And when an ending is exchanged, the understanding can come because what was heard is part of the true word.
नेपालीमा
र अन्त्य साटिँदा बुझाइ आउन सक्छ, किनकि सुनिएको साँचो शब्दको अंश हो।
Where it sits
ca adds the exchanged ending to the corrupt stem of 1.3.28. syāt (स्यात्) is the understanding already denied as a separate power. ekadeśa (एकदेश) is a piece of the correct word, which is what the hearer completes.
Split: ekadeśatvāt (एकदेशत्वात्) + ca (च) + vibhakti-vyatyaye (विभक्ति-व्यत्यये) + syāt (स्यात्)
Sanskrit, in depth
The words
| Word | Grammar | Sense |
|---|---|---|
| ekadeśatvāt (एकदेशत्वात्) | ablative singular, neuter | because it is one part |
| ca (च) | indeclinable | and |
| vibhakti-vyatyaye (विभक्ति-व्यत्यये) | locative singular, masculine | when an ending is exchanged |
| syāt (स्यात्) | third person singular, optative, of the verb as | it would be |
The phrases
The understanding happens even when the ending is the wrong one. A man says he comes with the Aśmakas (अश्मक), in the instrumental. The hearer, catching a part of the word, remembers the word in the form from the Aśmakas (अश्मक). From that remembered word the meaning is grasped.
In the same way, hearing gāvī (गावी) one remembers go, and from go one understands the animal with the dewlap.
Sanskrit in this line
The pāṭha (पाठ) splits ekadeśatvāt (एकदेशत्वात्) into eka and deśatvāt (देशत्वात्). It is one compound, the state of being a single part. ekadeśatvāt (एकदेशत्वात्) before ca is heard as ekadeśatvāc (एकदेशत्वाच्).
Say it back
Give the Aśmaka (अश्मक) endings, instrumental heard and ablative remembered, as the model for hearing gāvī (गावी) and remembering go.
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1.3.30. Vedic words and ordinary words are the same words, and they have the same meanings.