4.2.30

Nyāya Sūtra / Adhyāya 4 / 4.2.30

प्रमाणानुपपत्त्युपपत्तिभ्याम्

pramāṇānupapattyupapattibhyām

The line

By means of pramāṇānupapattyupapatta (प्रमाणानुपपत्त्युपपत्त).

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. pramāṇa-taścā-rtha-prati-patteḥ (प्रमाण-तश्चा-र्थ-प्रति-पत्तेः) from 4.2.29 is still in force. A sūtra (सूत्र) leaves a word out when the line before still holds it. That carrying is anuvṛtti (अनुवृत्ति).

Split: pramāṇānupapattyupapattibhyām (प्रमाणानुपपत्त्युपपत्तिभ्याम्)

Sanskrit, in depth

The words

WordGrammarSense
pramāṇānupapattyupapattibhyām (प्रमाणानुपपत्त्युपपत्तिभ्याम्)instrumental, dative, or ablative dualpramāṇānupapattyupapatta (प्रमाणानुपपत्त्युपपत्त)

The phrases

pramāṇānupapattyupapattibhyām (प्रमाणानुपपत्त्युपपत्तिभ्याम्) is pramāṇānupapattyupapatta (प्रमाणानुपपत्त्युपपत्त). It stands as instrumental, dative, or ablative dual.

Hold the words in that order. The English of the whole line comes after them.

Sanskrit in this line

pramāṇānupapattyupapattibhyām (प्रमाणानुपपत्त्युपपत्तिभ्याम्) is instrumental, dative, or ablative dual. That ending is the work an English preposition would do.

Say it back

Cover the English. Gloss pramāṇānupapattyupapattibhyām (प्रमाणानुपपत्त्युपपत्तिभ्याम्).

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4.2.31. A compound: dream, viṣa (विष), yābhi (याभि), a measure, a means of knowing, and vadaya (वदय), a compound: a means, prame (प्रमे), yābhi (याभि), and a measure, a.