1.2.6
Vaiśeṣika Sūtra / Adhyāya 1 / 1.2.6
अन्यत्रान्त्येभ्यो विशेषेभ्यः
anyatrāntyebhyo viśeṣebhyaḥ
The line
Except for the ultimate particulars.
नेपालीमा
अन्तिम विशेषहरू चाहिँ यसबाट बाहिर छन्।
Where it sits
sāmānyāni (सामान्यानि) viśeṣāḥ (विशेषाः) ca from 1.2.5 is the claim being limited. anyatra means 'in cases other than.' The ultimate particulars are not universals at all. 1.2.7 returns to the top of the scale, sattā (सत्ता), existence.
Split: anyatra (अन्यत्र) + antyebhyaḥ (अन्त्येभ्यः) + viśeṣebhyaḥ (विशेषेभ्यः)
Sanskrit, in depth
The words
| Word | Grammar | Sense |
|---|---|---|
| anyatra (अन्यत्र) | indeclinable | elsewhere. Except, in the other cases. |
| antyebhyaḥ (अन्त्येभ्यः) | ablative plural, masculine | from the final ones, the ultimate ones. |
| viśeṣebhyaḥ (विशेषेभ्यः) | ablative plural, masculine | from the particulars. The ultimate particulars. |
The phrases
The 'both' of 1.2.5 stops here. An ultimate particular is a particular only. Nothing sits under it. It is the this-ness of one atom, or of one self, that keeps it from being another.
The school is named from this. Vaiśeṣika (वैशेषिक) is the system of viśeṣa (विशेष), the final particular. The six categories include it. This is the line that says it does not behave like substanceness.
Sanskrit in this line
anyatra with an ablative is 'elsewhere than, except.' antia is the end. An antya viśeṣa (विशेष) is a particular at the end of the chain, with nothing beneath it.
Say it back
What can an ultimate particular never be called?
Next
1.2.7. Existence is that by which we say 'it is' of the three.