6.2.3

Vaiśeṣika Sūtra / Adhyāya 6 / 6.2.3

चातुराश्रम्यमुपधा अनुपधाश्च

cāturāśramyamupadhā anupadhāśca

The line

cāturāśramyamupadha (चातुराश्रम्यमुपध), anupadhāśca (अनुपधाश्च).

Where it sits

In Vaiśeṣika (वैशेषिक) Sūtra (सूत्र), adhyāya (अध्याय) 6. The Veda's sentences, and how dharma (धर्म) and adharma (अधर्म) are known. The line is short. abhiṣecanopavāsa (अभिषेचनोपवास) from 6.2.2 is still in force. A sūtra (सूत्र) leaves a word out when the line before still holds it. That carrying is anuvṛtti (अनुवृत्ति).

Split: cāturāśramyamupadhā (चातुराश्रम्यमुपधा) + anupadhāśca (अनुपधाश्च)

Sanskrit, in depth

The words

WordGrammarSense
cāturāśramyamupadhā (चातुराश्रम्यमुपधा)nominative singular, feminine, or instrumental singularcāturāśramyamupadha (चातुराश्रम्यमुपध)
anupadhāśca (अनुपधाश्च)the form as the line writes itthis word, as the line writes it

The phrases

cāturāśramyamupadhā (चातुराश्रम्यमुपधा) is cāturāśramyamupadha (चातुराश्रम्यमुपध). It stands as nominative singular, feminine, or instrumental singular.

anupadhāśca (अनुपधाश्च) is this word, as the line writes it. It stands as the form as the line writes it.

Sanskrit in this line

cāturāśramyamupadhā (चातुराश्रम्यमुपधा) is nominative singular, feminine, or instrumental singular. That ending is the work an English preposition would do.

Say it back

Cover the English. Gloss cāturāśramyamupadhā (चातुराश्रम्यमुपधा) and anupadhāśca (अनुपधाश्च).

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6.2.4. A compound: a state, and a fault, a compound: upadhā (उपधा), and a fault, anupadha (अनुपध).