3.2.33
Mīmāṃsā Sūtra / Adhyāya 3 / 3.2.33
ग्रहणाद् वापनीतं स्यात्
grahaṇād vāpanītaṃ syāt
The line
Because of a grasping, vāpanīta (वापनीत), it would be, let it be granted.
Where it sits
In Mīmāṃsā (मीमांसा) Sūtra (सूत्र), adhyāya (अध्याय) 3. Śeṣa (शेष), the subsidiary. How you tell what serves a rite and what the rite serves. The words of this line are the ones to keep. A shorter line after this one may leave them unsaid.
Split: grahaṇāt (ग्रहणात्) + vāpanītaṃ (वापनीतं) + syāt (स्यात्)
Sanskrit, in depth
The words
| Word | Grammar | Sense |
|---|---|---|
| grahaṇāt (ग्रहणात्) | ablative singular | a grasping |
| vāpanītaṃ (वापनीतं) | accusative singular, masculine, or nominative or accusative singular, neuter | vāpanīta (वापनीत) |
| syāt (स्यात्) | optative, third person singular | it would be, let it be granted |
The phrases
grahaṇāt (ग्रहणात्) is a grasping. It stands as ablative singular. The line writes it grahaṇād (ग्रहणाद्). vāpanītaṃ (वापनीतं) is vāpanīta (वापनीत). It stands as accusative singular, masculine, or nominative or accusative singular, neuter.
syāt (स्यात्) is it would be, let it be granted. It stands as optative, third person singular.
Sanskrit in this line
vāpanītaṃ (वापनीतं) is accusative singular, masculine, or nominative or accusative singular, neuter. That ending is the work an English preposition would do. The line writes it grahaṇād (ग्रहणाद्).
Say it back
Cover the English. Gloss grahaṇāt (ग्रहणात्) and vāpanītaṃ (वापनीतं).
Next
3.2.34. tvaṣṭāra (त्वष्टार), tūpalakṣayet (तूपलक्षयेत्), because of pāna (पान).