1.4.3
Mīmāṃsā Sūtra / Adhyāya 1 / 1.4.3
यस्मिन् गुणोपदेशः प्रधानतोऽभिसम्बन्धः
yasmin guṇopadeśaḥ pradhānato 'bhisambandhaḥ
The line
In a sentence where a quality is taught, the connection is principally with the main rite, and the other word is a name.
नेपालीमा
गुण सिकाइएको वाक्यमा सम्बन्ध मुख्यतः मुख्य कर्मसँग हुन्छ, र अर्को शब्द नाम हो।
Where it sits
nāmadheya (नामधेय) from 1.4.2 is the status being tested on a new set of words. yasmin is the sentence in which the doubt arises. pradhānataḥ (प्रधानतः) abhisambandhaḥ (अभिसम्बन्धः) says the quality that is really taught belongs to the principal act, so the remaining word is free to name that act.
Split: yasmin (यस्मिन्) + guṇa-upadeśaḥ (गुण-उपदेशः) + pradhānataḥ (प्रधानतः) + abhisambandhaḥ (अभिसम्बन्धः)
Sanskrit, in depth
The words
| Word | Grammar | Sense |
|---|---|---|
| yasmin (यस्मिन्) | locative singular, neuter | in which |
| guṇa-upadeśaḥ (गुण-उपदेशः) | nominative singular, masculine | a teaching of a quality |
| pradhānataḥ (प्रधानतः) | ablative singular, neuter | from the principal, principally |
| abhisambandhaḥ (अभिसम्बन्धः) | nominative singular, masculine | the connection |
The phrases
The sentences are: one who wants cattle should sacrifice with the Citra. The out-of-doors purifying chant is the trivṛt (त्रिवृत्). The butter chants are fifteen. The pṛṣṭha (पृष्ठ) chants are seventeen. The doubt is whether citrā (चित्रा), pavamāna (पवमान), ājya (आज्य), and pṛṣṭha (पृष्ठ) enjoin qualities, or whether they are names of rites.
The first view says qualities. citrā (चित्रा) is a word for the spotted quality. The others are class-words, not built as names of actions. And he should sacrifice would then only restate an offering already known.
The decision: where one is in doubt, and a further quality is taught, that quality's connection is with the principal rite, and the doubtful word is the name of the rite. If citrā (चित्रा) enjoined a quality, one sentence would have to enjoin a female animal where a male was in place, cattle as the fruit, and the spotted quality. It cannot. Taken as a quality, spotted would be enjoined of the female, and it would not be enjoined of the offering to Agni and Soma or of the man who wants cattle. Likewise fifteen and the butter chants are two unknown connections, and one sentence cannot enjoin both. As names, only the number is enjoined, of chants already known from other sentences.
Sanskrit in this line
pradhānataḥ (प्रधानतः) before a vowel is written pradhānato (प्रधानतो) ', with the avagraha keeping the a of abhisambandhaḥ (अभिसम्बन्धः). guṇopadeśaḥ (गुणोपदेशः) is guṇa (गुण) plus upadeśa (उपदेश). The line has no verb. The connection is the predicate, and the name is the conclusion Śabara (शबर) draws.
Say it back
Say that Citra, the outside purifying chant, the butter chants, and the pṛṣṭha (पृष्ठ) chants are names, because one sentence cannot enjoin their qualities and the rite together.
Next
1.4.4. Another text already teaches the quality, so the word in this text is the name.