1.4.4
Mīmāṃsā Sūtra / Adhyāya 1 / 1.4.4
तत्प्रख्यञ् चान्यशास्त्रम्
tatprakhyañ cānyaśāstram
The line
And another text has that same purport, so the word here does not enjoin the quality.
नेपालीमा
र अर्को पाठको तात्पर्य पनि त्यही भएकाले यहाँको शब्दले गुण विधि गर्दैन।
Where it sits
ca adds a further sign of a name to the sign in 1.4.3. tat is the quality one might have thought this word enjoins. anyaśāstram (अन्यशास्त्रम्) is the other sentence that has already taught it. The agnihotra and the āghāra (आघार) are the cases.
Split: tat-prakhyam (तत्-प्रख्यम्) + ca (च) + anya-śāstram (अन्य-शास्त्रम्)
Sanskrit, in depth
The words
| Word | Grammar | Sense |
|---|---|---|
| tat-prakhyam (तत्-प्रख्यम्) | nominative singular, neuter | what has the same purport |
| ca (च) | indeclinable | and |
| anya-śāstram (अन्य-शास्त्रम्) | nominative singular, neuter | another text |
The phrases
The sentences are: one who desires heaven should offer the agnihotra. He should pour the āghāra (आघार). The doubt is whether agnihotra and āghāra (आघार) enjoin qualities, or whether they are names.
The first view hears in agnihotra an offering for Agni, and in āghāra (आघार) a long pouring of ghee or the like. That would be a quality of the darvihoma, and of the quiet offering. The ordinary meaning would be kept, and the hearer would be given something further to do.
The decision: another text already has that purport. The deities are taught by the sentence that he offers in the evening to Agni and to Prajāpati (प्रजापति). The material of the pouring is taught by the sentence about the four ladlefuls and the pouring of that. An injunction makes known what is not known. Here the quality is already known from elsewhere. So these words are names. The agnihotra is the offering in which the offering to Agni takes place. āghāra (आघार) is already known as a pouring in a long stream.
Sanskrit in this line
tatprakhyam before ca is heard as tatprakhyañ (तत्प्रख्यञ्), because m before c becomes ñ (ञ्), and ca before anya is heard as cā (चा). prakhyam is the look or the purport, not a second injunction.
Say it back
Say that agnihotra and āghāra (आघार) are names, because the deities and the poured material are taught in other sentences.