1.4.28
Mīmāṃsā Sūtra / Adhyāya 1 / 1.4.28
लिङ्गसमवायात्
liṅgasamavāyāt
The line
Because the mark resides together with the group, the word applies to the group, and the sentence restates.
नेपालीमा
चिह्न समूहसँगै बस्ने भएकाले शब्द समूहमा लाग्छ, र वाक्यले फेरि भन्छ।
Where it sits
This is the same kind of laying as the creations in 1.4.27. There the ground was abundance. Here the ground is the mark sitting in the collection. The breath-holding mantras and the butter mantras are the cases.
Split: liṅga-samavāyāt (लिङ्ग-समवायात्)
Sanskrit, in depth
The words
| Word | Grammar | Sense |
|---|---|---|
| liṅga-samavāyāt (लिङ्ग-समवायात्) | ablative singular, masculine | because a mark resides in the group |
The phrases
He lays the breath-holders. He lays the butter ones. Taken as a fresh injunction, the mantras without the mark would be left with nothing to do. So the sentence is a restatement.
The word for the marked ones is used of the others because the mark resides in the collection. Men with umbrellas are going is said when one of them has an umbrella, and the rest are meant with him. The word does not drop its own sense. The man with the umbrella is included. The mantras that bear the mark are included, and the group is meant.
Sanskrit in this line
The pāṭha (पाठ) has the ablative liṅgasamavāyāt (लिङ्गसमवायात्). Śabara (शबर)'s printed sūtra (सूत्र) has the nominative liṅgasamavāyaḥ (लिङ्गसमवायः). The ground is the residence of the mark in the group. samavāya (समवाय) is that residing together, not a new act.
Say it back
Give the umbrella-bearers as the model, and say the breath-mantras and the butter-mantras name their whole group by the mark that sits in it.
Next
1.4.29. In a doubtful sentence the rest of the sentence fixes the thing, and here it fixes ghee.