3.5.8
Mīmāṃsā Sūtra / Adhyāya 3 / 3.5.8
चमसवदिति चेत्
camasavad iti cet
The line
If you say that camasavad (चमसवद्), then.
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. avattatvāc (अवत्तत्वाच्) from 3.5.7 is still in force. A sūtra (सूत्र) leaves a word out when the line before still holds it. That carrying is anuvṛtti (अनुवृत्ति).
Split: camasavad (चमसवद्) + iti (इति) + cet (चेत्)
Sanskrit, in depth
The words
| Word | Grammar | Sense |
|---|---|---|
| camasavad (चमसवद्) | the form as the line writes it | this word, as the line writes it |
| iti (इति) | indeclinable | thus. It closes a quote or a thought |
| cet (चेत्) | indeclinable | if you say, if |
The phrases
camasavad (चमसवद्) is this word, as the line writes it. It stands as the form as the line writes it. iti (इति) is thus. It closes a quote or a thought. It stands as indeclinable.
cet (चेत्) is if you say, if. It stands as indeclinable.
Sanskrit in this line
camasavad (चमसवद्) is the form as the line writes it. That ending is the work an English preposition would do.
Say it back
Cover the English. Gloss camasavad (चमसवद्).