11.4.17
Mīmāṃsā Sūtra / Adhyāya 11 / 11.4.17
साङ्गकालश्रुतित्वाद् वा स्वस्थानानां विकारः स्यात्
sāṅgakālaśrutitvād vā svasthānānāṃ vikāraḥ syāt
The line
A compound: sāṅga (साङ्ग), time, scripture, and tvāda (त्वाद) or, of a compound: one's own, and the place, the order, a transformation, it would be, let it be granted.
Where it sits
In Mīmāṃsā (मीमांसा) Sūtra (सूत्र), adhyāya (अध्याय) 11. One performance serving many purposes, and when the acts stay separate. The words of this line are the ones to keep. A shorter line after this one may leave them unsaid.
Split: sāṅga-kāla-śruti-tvāda (साङ्ग-काल-श्रुति-त्वाद) + vā (वा) + sva-sthānānāṃ (स्व-स्थानानां) + vikāraḥ (विकारः) + syāt (स्यात्)
Sanskrit, in depth
The words
| Word | Grammar | Sense |
|---|---|---|
| sāṅga-kāla-śruti-tvāda (साङ्ग-काल-श्रुति-त्वाद) | a compound, the ending is on the last member | a compound: sāṅga (साङ्ग), time, scripture, and tvāda (त्वाद). Read it from the end |
| vā (वा) | indeclinable | or |
| sva-sthānānāṃ (स्व-स्थानानां) | genitive plural | a compound: one's own, and the place, the order. Read it from the end |
| vikāraḥ (विकारः) | nominative singular, masculine | a transformation |
| syāt (स्यात्) | optative, third person singular | it would be, let it be granted |
The phrases
sāṅga-kāla-śruti-tvāda (साङ्ग-काल-श्रुति-त्वाद) is a compound: sāṅga (साङ्ग), time, scripture, and tvāda (त्वाद). Read it from the end. It stands as a compound, the ending is on the last member. vā (वा) is or. It stands as indeclinable. sva-sthānānāṃ (स्व-स्थानानां) is a compound: one's own, and the place, the order. Read it from the end. It stands as genitive plural.
vikāraḥ (विकारः) is a transformation. It stands as nominative singular, masculine. syāt (स्यात्) is it would be, let it be granted. It stands as optative, third person singular.
Sanskrit in this line
sāṅga-kāla-śruti-tvāda (साङ्ग-काल-श्रुति-त्वाद) is one compound. The hyphen is a teaching mark. Only the last member wears the case.
Say it back
Cover the English. Gloss sāṅga-kāla-śruti-tvāda (साङ्ग-काल-श्रुति-त्वाद) and sva-sthānānāṃ (स्व-स्थानानां).