1.4.26
Mīmāṃsā Sūtra / Adhyāya 1 / 1.4.26
प्रशंसा
praśaṃsā
The line
The sentences are praise, by blaming what is set beside the thing praised.
नेपालीमा
स्तुति गरिएको कुराको छेउमा राखिएको कुराको निन्दा गरेर वाक्यहरू स्तुति हुन्छन्।
Where it sits
praśaṃsā (प्रशंसा) names the use that 1.4.23 through 1.4.25 have been reaching by other grounds. Here the ground is the praise itself, done by blame of the rest. The cow, the horse, the sāman (सामन्), and the metres are not newly restricted. Their existing injunctions are being commended.
Split: praśaṃsā (प्रशंसा)
Sanskrit, in depth
The words
| Word | Grammar | Sense |
|---|---|---|
| praśaṃsā (प्रशंसा) | nominative singular, feminine | praise |
The phrases
The sentences say that animals other than the cow and the horse are non-animals, and that the cow and the horse are the animals. That a rite without the sāman (सामन्) is no sacrifice. That a session without metres is no session. The first view takes them as injunctions.
If they were injunctions, only the cow and the horse would be animals, only a rite with the sāman (सामन्) would be a sacrifice, and only a metrical session would be a session. The originating sentences of the others would have nothing to do, and those other injunctions would have no room.
So the agreement is for praise. The others are blamed in order to praise the cow and the horse, the rite with the sāman (सामन्), and the session with metres. The pattern is the sentence that calls food without ghee no food, and a dirty cloth no garment.
Sanskrit in this line
praśaṃsā (प्रशंसा) is nominative feminine, again a one-word label. The privatives apaśu (अपशु), ayajña (अयज्ञ), and asatram are in the Vedic sentences, not in the sūtra (सूत्र). The sūtra (सूत्र) only names the use.
Say it back
Say that the other animals, the other rites, and the other sessions are blamed in order to praise, and are not forbidden.