7.3.1
Mīmāṃsā Sūtra / Adhyāya 7 / 7.3.1
उक्तं क्रियाभिधानं तच्छ्रुतावन्यत्र विधिप्रदेशः स्यात्
uktaṃ kriyābhidhānaṃ tacchrutāv anyatra vidhipradeśaḥ syāt
The line
What has been said, a compound: an act, and a naming, tacchrutāv (तच्छ्रुताव्), elsewhere, a compound: an injunction, and a unit, it would be, let it be granted.
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: uktaṃ (उक्तं) + kriyā-abhidhānaṃ (क्रिया-अभिधानं) + tacchrutāv (तच्छ्रुताव्) + anyatra (अन्यत्र) + vidhi-pradeśaḥ (विधि-प्रदेशः) + syāt (स्यात्)
Sanskrit, in depth
The words
| Word | Grammar | Sense |
|---|---|---|
| uktaṃ (उक्तं) | nominative or accusative singular, neuter | what has been said |
| kriyā-abhidhānaṃ (क्रिया-अभिधानं) | nominative or accusative singular, neuter | a compound: an act, and a naming. Read it from the end |
| tacchrutāv (तच्छ्रुताव्) | the form as the line writes it | this word, as the line writes it |
| anyatra (अन्यत्र) | indeclinable | elsewhere |
| vidhi-pradeśaḥ (विधि-प्रदेशः) | nominative singular, masculine | a compound: an injunction, and a unit. Read it from the end |
| syāt (स्यात्) | optative, third person singular | it would be, let it be granted |
The phrases
uktaṃ (उक्तं) is what has been said. It stands as nominative or accusative singular, neuter. kriyā-abhidhānaṃ (क्रिया-अभिधानं) is a compound: an act, and a naming. Read it from the end. It stands as nominative or accusative singular, neuter. tacchrutāv (तच्छ्रुताव्) is this word, as the line writes it. It stands as the form as the line writes it.
anyatra (अन्यत्र) is elsewhere. It stands as indeclinable. vidhi-pradeśaḥ (विधि-प्रदेशः) is a compound: an injunction, and a unit. Read it from the end. It stands as nominative singular, masculine. syāt (स्यात्) is it would be, let it be granted. It stands as optative, third person singular.
Sanskrit in this line
kriyā-abhidhānaṃ (क्रिया-अभिधानं) is one compound. The hyphen is a teaching mark. Only the last member wears the case.
Say it back
Cover the English. Gloss uktaṃ (उक्तं) and kriyā-abhidhānaṃ (क्रिया-अभिधानं).
Next
7.3.2. In the unseen or even, because of bhāgitva (भागित्व).