1.4.8
Mīmāṃsā Sūtra / Adhyāya 1 / 1.4.8
ऐकशब्द्ये परार्थवत्
aikaśabdye parārthavat
The line
When there is a single wording, the word serves another purpose, as a name, and does not enjoin a quality.
नेपालीमा
एउटै पाठ हुँदा शब्द नामका रूपमा अर्को प्रयोजनमा लाग्छ, र गुण विधि गर्दैन।
Where it sits
The name decided in 1.4.7 still needed its reaching, and this line gives it. aikaśabdye (ऐकशब्द्ये) is the one sentence svārājyakāmo (स्वाराज्यकामो) yajeta vājapeyena (वाजपेयेन). parārthavat (परार्थवत्) says the extra word serves the offering, which is the other. The instrumental ending still serves that offering, as it did for Udbhid.
Split: aikaśabdye (ऐकशब्द्ये) + para-artha-vat (पर-अर्थ-वत्)
Sanskrit, in depth
The words
| Word | Grammar | Sense |
|---|---|---|
| aikaśabdye (ऐकशब्द्ये) | locative singular, neuter | when the wording is one |
| para-artha-vat (पर-अर्थ-वत्) | indeclinable | like what has its sense for something else |
The phrases
If vājapeya (वाजपेय) were a quality, the one word yajeta would have to serve its own sense and another's. For its own sense it would enjoin an offering for the man who wants overlordship. For the other sense it would restate that offering so that the quality could be connected. One sentence would split.
One does not hear four words, he should sacrifice who wants overlordship, and he should sacrifice with the vājapeya (वाजपेय). One hears three. A single utterance of yajeta cannot be unknown, and so an injunction, and at the same time known, and so a restatement.
Without a finite verb a noun does not enjoin an operation. The only finite verb is yajeta. It cannot be the injunction for both the man and the quality without becoming two sentences. When the wording is one, the name-word is like other words whose sense belongs to the action already being enjoined. It does not add a command.
Sanskrit in this line
aikaśabdye (ऐकशब्द्ये) is the locative of the abstract from one word, with the vṛddhi (वृद्धि). Śabara (शबर)'s printed sūtra (सूत्र) has ekaśabdye (एकशब्द्ये). The locative sense is the same. parārthavat (परार्थवत्) is the indeclinable vat, like māthuravat (माथुरवत्), and it is the predicate.
Say it back
Say that yajeta is heard once, and that one hearing cannot both enjoin the offering and restate it for a quality.
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1.4.9. Qualities not taught elsewhere are enjoined together with the rite, in the one sentence.