4.3.21
Mīmāṃsā Sūtra / Adhyāya 4 / 4.3.21
वीते च कारणे नियमात्
vīte ca kāraṇe niyamāt
The line
In vīta (वीत) and, in a cause, because of a restriction.
Where it sits
In Mīmāṃsā (मीमांसा) Sūtra (सूत्र), adhyāya (अध्याय) 4. What is for the rite, and what is for the person. The words of this line are the ones to keep. A shorter line after this one may leave them unsaid.
Split: vīte (वीते) + ca (च) + kāraṇe (कारणे) + niyamāt (नियमात्)
Sanskrit, in depth
The words
| Word | Grammar | Sense |
|---|---|---|
| vīte (वीते) | locative singular, or nominative or accusative dual, neuter | vīta (वीत) |
| ca (च) | indeclinable | and |
| kāraṇe (कारणे) | locative singular, or nominative or accusative dual, neuter | a cause |
| niyamāt (नियमात्) | ablative singular | a restriction |
The phrases
vīte (वीते) is vīta (वीत). It stands as locative singular, or nominative or accusative dual, neuter. ca (च) is and. It stands as indeclinable.
kāraṇe (कारणे) is a cause. It stands as locative singular, or nominative or accusative dual, neuter. niyamāt (नियमात्) is a restriction. It stands as ablative singular.
Sanskrit in this line
niyamāt (नियमात्) is ablative singular. That ending is the work an English preposition would do.
Say it back
Cover the English. Gloss vīte (वीते) and kāraṇe (कारणे).
Next
4.3.22. Desire or, by means of a compound: that, and conjunction, in codyata (चोद्यत).