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Sāṅkhya Kārikā / Verses 69–72, who passed it on / 72
सप्तत्यां किल येऽर्थास् तेऽर्थाः कृत्स्नस्य षष्टितन्त्रस्य आख्यायिकाविरहिताः परवादविवर्जिताश् चापि
saptatyāṃ kila ye 'rthās te 'rthāḥ kṛtsnasya ṣaṣṭitantrasya ākhyāyikāvirahitāḥ paravādavivarjitāś cāpi
The line
The topics in the seventy are, indeed, the topics of the whole sixty-fold teaching, without the stories and without the review of other views.
नेपालीमा
सत्तरीका विषय नै साठी तन्त्रको सारा उपदेशका विषय हुन्, कथाहरू र अरू मतको समीक्षा छोडेर।
Where it sits
You have the skeleton. The Yoga Sūtra (सूत्र) is the paired book of practice. Nyāya (न्याय) and Vaiśeṣika (वैशेषिक) are the paired books of proof and of what exists, and they disagree with parts of what you just read. Mīmāṃsā (मीमांसा) and Vedānta (वेदान्त) are the paired books of the Veda, and Vedānta (वेदान्त) will not grant that persons are many or that nature is an ultimate cause. Those disagreements are the next sittings, in their own books. They are not a reason to blur this one.
Split: saptatyām (सप्तत्याम्) + kila (किल) + ye (ये) + arthāḥ (अर्थाः) + te (ते) + arthāḥ (अर्थाः) + kṛtsnasya (कृत्स्नस्य) + ṣaṣṭi-tantrasya (षष्टि-तन्त्रस्य) + ākhyāyikā-virahitāḥ (आख्यायिका-विरहिताः) + para-vāda-vivarjitāḥ (पर-वाद-विवर्जिताः) + ca (च) + api (अपि)
Sanskrit, in depth
The words
| Word | Grammar | Sense |
|---|---|---|
| saptatyām (सप्तत्याम्) | locative singular, feminine | in the seventy. In these verses. The teaching verses are often counted as seventy, with the closing lines outside the count, or the whole as seventy including the frame. The book you have read is the seventy-two of the received text. saptati (सप्तति) is seventy. |
| kila (किल) | indeclinable | so it is said, indeed. |
| ye arthāḥ (ये अर्थाः) | nominative plural | which topics. |
| te arthāḥ (ते अर्थाः) | nominative plural | those topics. |
| kṛtsnasya ṣaṣṭi-tantrasya (कृत्स्नस्य षष्टि-तन्त्रस्य) | genitive singular | of the whole system of sixty. An older Sāṅkhya (साङ्ख्य) book, not now extant, arranged in sixty topics. |
| ākhyāyikā-virahitāḥ (आख्यायिका-विरहिताः) | nominative plural | left without the illustrative stories. ākhyāyikā (आख्यायिका) is a little narrative. |
| para-vāda-vivarjitāḥ (पर-वाद-विवर्जिताः) | nominative plural | left without the rival doctrines. paravāda (परवाद) is another school's view, reviewed in order to answer it. |
| ca api (च अपि) | indeclinables | and also. |
The phrases
ye ... te (ये ... ते) is which ... those. The topics in the seventy are the topics of the sixty. Nothing doctrinal is claimed to have been dropped. What was dropped is story and polemic.
That is why this book can feel abrupt. The examples and the arguments against others were in the longer teaching. The kārikā (कारिका) keeps the skeleton, and it tells you so in the last line.
Sanskrit in this line
ye (ये) and te (ते) are the relative and the demonstrative. A relative clause in Sanskrit does not need the word 'which' to be a separate trick. ye arthāḥ ... te arthāḥ (ये अर्थाः ... ते अर्थाः) is 'which topics ... those topics.' saptatyām (सप्तत्याम्) is locative, 'in the seventy.'
Say it back
Close the book. Say puruṣa (पुरुष), prakṛti (प्रकृति), and jñānam (ज्ञानम्) without looking, and say what each does in the last line of the teaching, verse 68.