7.2.9
Mīmāṃsā Sūtra / Adhyāya 7 / 7.2.9
स्वरस् तूत्पत्तिषु स्यान् मात्रावर्णाविभक्तत्वात्
svaras tūtpattiṣu syān mātrāvarṇāvibhaktatvāt
The line
A compound: one's own, and taste, in tūtpatta (तूत्पत्त), it would be. syāt (स्यात्) before n, because of mātrāvarṇāvibhaktatva (मात्रावर्णाविभक्तत्व).
Where it sits
In Mīmāṃsā (मीमांसा) Sūtra (सूत्र), adhyāya (अध्याय) 7. Transfer. The details of a model rite are carried to a variant rite, and where that carrying stops. The words of this line are the ones to keep. A shorter line after this one may leave them unsaid.
Split: sva-rasa (स्व-रस) + tūtpattiṣu (तूत्पत्तिषु) + syān (स्यान्) + mātrāvarṇāvibhaktatvāt (मात्रावर्णाविभक्तत्वात्)
Sanskrit, in depth
The words
| Word | Grammar | Sense |
|---|---|---|
| sva-rasa (स्व-रस) | a compound, the ending is on the last member | a compound: one's own, and taste. Read it from the end |
| tūtpattiṣu (तूत्पत्तिषु) | locative plural | tūtpatta (तूत्पत्त) |
| syān (स्यान्) | optative, third person singular | it would be. syāt (स्यात्) before n |
| mātrāvarṇāvibhaktatvāt (मात्रावर्णाविभक्तत्वात्) | ablative singular | mātrāvarṇāvibhaktatva (मात्रावर्णाविभक्तत्व) |
The phrases
sva-rasa (स्व-रस) is a compound: one's own, and taste. Read it from the end. It stands as a compound, the ending is on the last member. tūtpattiṣu (तूत्पत्तिषु) is tūtpatta (तूत्पत्त). It stands as locative plural.
syān (स्यान्) is it would be. syāt (स्यात्) before n. It stands as optative, third person singular. mātrāvarṇāvibhaktatvāt (मात्रावर्णाविभक्तत्वात्) is mātrāvarṇāvibhaktatva (मात्रावर्णाविभक्तत्व). It stands as ablative singular.
Sanskrit in this line
mātrāvarṇāvibhaktatvāt (मात्रावर्णाविभक्तत्वात्) is ablative singular. That ending is the work an English preposition would do.
Say it back
Cover the English. Gloss sva-rasa (स्व-रस) and tūtpattiṣu (तूत्पत्तिषु).
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