4.2.10
Nyāya Sūtra / Adhyāya 4 / 4.2.10
न चावयव्यवयवाः
na cāvayavyavayavāḥ
The line
Not cāvayavyavayava (चावयव्यवयव).
Where it sits
In Nyāya (न्याय) Sūtra (सूत्र), adhyāya (अध्याय) 4. Examines action, fault, rebirth, fruit, pain, and release, and then the whole and the part. The line is short. pṛthak (पृथक्) from 4.2.9 is still in force. A sūtra (सूत्र) leaves a word out when the line before still holds it. That carrying is anuvṛtti (अनुवृत्ति).
Split: na (न) + cāvayavyavayavāḥ (चावयव्यवयवाः)
Sanskrit, in depth
The words
| Word | Grammar | Sense |
|---|---|---|
| na (न) | indeclinable | not |
| cāvayavyavayavāḥ (चावयव्यवयवाः) | nominative plural | cāvayavyavayava (चावयव्यवयव) |
The phrases
na (न) is not. It stands as indeclinable.
cāvayavyavayavāḥ (चावयव्यवयवाः) is cāvayavyavayava (चावयव्यवयव). It stands as nominative plural.
Sanskrit in this line
cāvayavyavayavāḥ (चावयव्यवयवाः) is nominative plural. That ending is the work an English preposition would do.
Say it back
Cover the English. Gloss cāvayavyavayavāḥ (चावयव्यवयवाः).