1.3.7

अपि वा कारणाग्रहणे प्रयुक्तानि प्रतीयेरन्

api vā kāraṇāgrahaṇe prayuktāni pratīyeran

The line

Or rather, where no motive is grasped, the things practiced are taken as enjoined.

नेपालीमा

बरु जहाँ प्रयोजन बुझिँदैन, त्यहाँ चलनमा रहेका कुरा विधिले तोकिएका मानिन्छन्।

Where it sits

The practices of 1.3.5 come back. The refusal in 1.3.6 holds only where they would cancel the text. The inference of 1.3.2 is the same inference, now used for a practice with no visible motive.

Split: api (अपि) + vā (वा) + kāraṇa-agrahaṇe (कारण-अग्रहणे) + prayuktāni (प्रयुक्तानि) + pratīyeran (प्रतीयेरन्)

Sanskrit, in depth

The words

Word	Grammar	Sense
api (अपि)	indeclinable	also, marking a turn of view
vā (वा)	indeclinable	or rather
kāraṇa-agrahaṇe (कारण-अग्रहणे)	locative singular, neuter	when a motive is not grasped
prayuktāni (प्रयुक्तानि)	nominative plural, neuter	the things that are practiced
pratīyeran (प्रतीयेरन्)	third person plural, optative, passive, of prati-i	they should be understood

The phrases

api vā (वा) turns the view. Where no motive is grasped, practices of this kind are understood as having a Vedic root.

Order is a quality of the acts. A quality does not cancel the act. The order is not yet there at the moment the act is first reached, so sipping has nothing to collide with then. Time serves the performance. One does not twist the act to suit the time.

Sipping, the thread, and the right-hand way are subsidiaries of every act. They do not push the main act aside. So they are means of knowing.

Sanskrit in this line

The pāṭha (पाठ) writes kāraṇagrahaṇe (कारणग्रहणे). The line is kāraṇāgrahaṇe (कारणाग्रहणे), kāraṇa (कारण) plus agrahaṇe (अग्रहणे). The final a of kāraṇa (कारण) and the short privative a become ā (आ). Śabara (शबर) glosses it as practices whose motive is not grasped.

Say it back

Say that sipping, the thread, and the right hand stand when no worldly motive is seen, because they are subsidiaries.

1.3.8. Where users divide and no text is seen, the conflict is an even disagreement.