3.5.32
Mīmāṃsā Sūtra / Adhyāya 3 / 3.5.32
होमाभिषबाभ्यां च
homābhiṣabābhyāṃ ca
The line
By means of homābhiṣaba (होमाभिषब) and.
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 line is short. vaṣaṭkārāc (वषट्काराच्) from 3.5.31 is still in force. A sūtra (सूत्र) leaves a word out when the line before still holds it. That carrying is anuvṛtti (अनुवृत्ति).
Split: homābhiṣabābhyāṃ (होमाभिषबाभ्यां) + ca (च)
Sanskrit, in depth
The words
| Word | Grammar | Sense |
|---|---|---|
| homābhiṣabābhyāṃ (होमाभिषबाभ्यां) | instrumental, dative, or ablative dual | homābhiṣaba (होमाभिषब) |
| ca (च) | indeclinable | and |
The phrases
homābhiṣabābhyāṃ (होमाभिषबाभ्यां) is homābhiṣaba (होमाभिषब). It stands as instrumental, dative, or ablative dual.
ca (च) is and. It stands as indeclinable.
Sanskrit in this line
homābhiṣabābhyāṃ (होमाभिषबाभ्यां) is instrumental, dative, or ablative dual. That ending is the work an English preposition would do.
Say it back
Cover the English. Gloss homābhiṣabābhyāṃ (होमाभिषबाभ्यां).