8.3.3
Mīmāṃsā Sūtra / Adhyāya 8 / 8.3.3
गणचोदनायां यस्य लिङ्गं तदावृत्तिः प्रतीयेताग्नेयवत्
gaṇacodanāyāṃ yasya liṅgaṃ tadāvṛttiḥ pratīyetāgneyavat
The line
A compound: gaṇa (गण), a command, and yāṃa (यांअ), of of whom, whose, a mark, tadāvṛtta (तदावृत्त), pratīyetāgneyavat (प्रतीयेताग्नेयवत्).
Where it sits
In Mīmāṃsā (मीमांसा) Sūtra (सूत्र), adhyāya (अध्याय) 8. Transfer by specific indications. The signs in a variant rite's own sentence say which model it borrows from. The words of this line are the ones to keep. A shorter line after this one may leave them unsaid.
Split: gaṇa-codanā-yāṃa (गण-चोदना-यांअ) + yasya (यस्य) + liṅgaṃ (लिङ्गं) + tadāvṛttiḥ (तदावृत्तिः) + pratīyetāgneyavat (प्रतीयेताग्नेयवत्)
Sanskrit, in depth
The words
| Word | Grammar | Sense |
|---|---|---|
| gaṇa-codanā-yāṃa (गण-चोदना-यांअ) | a compound, the ending is on the last member | a compound: gaṇa (गण), a command, and yāṃa (यांअ). Read it from the end |
| yasya (यस्य) | genitive singular | of whom, whose |
| liṅgaṃ (लिङ्गं) | nominative or accusative singular, neuter | a mark |
| tadāvṛttiḥ (तदावृत्तिः) | nominative singular | tadāvṛtta (तदावृत्त) |
| pratīyetāgneyavat (प्रतीयेताग्नेयवत्) | the form as the line writes it | this word, as the line writes it |
The phrases
gaṇa-codanā-yāṃa (गण-चोदना-यांअ) is a compound: gaṇa (गण), a command, and yāṃa (यांअ). Read it from the end. It stands as a compound, the ending is on the last member. yasya (यस्य) is of whom, whose. It stands as genitive singular. liṅgaṃ (लिङ्गं) is a mark. It stands as nominative or accusative singular, neuter.
tadāvṛttiḥ (तदावृत्तिः) is tadāvṛtta (तदावृत्त). It stands as nominative singular. pratīyetāgneyavat (प्रतीयेताग्नेयवत्) is this word, as the line writes it. It stands as the form as the line writes it.
Sanskrit in this line
pratīyetāgneyavat (प्रतीयेताग्नेयवत्) 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 gaṇa-codanā-yāṃa (गण-चोदना-यांअ) and yasya (यस्य).