1.1.19
Brahma Sūtra / Adhyāya 1 / 1.1.19
कामाच् च नानुमानापेक्षा
kāmāc ca nānumānāpekṣā
The line
And because he desired, there is no need to depend on inference.
नेपालीमा
र उसले इच्छा गरेकाले अनुमानमा अडिनु पर्दैन।
Where it sits
The conscious brahman (ब्रह्मन्) of this passage is still the subject. ca joins this reason to the refusal of itara. anumāna (अनुमान) is the Sāṃkhya (सांख्य) inference, the same rival as aśabdam (अशब्दम्) in 1.1.5.
Split: kāmāt (कामात्) + ca (च) + na (न) + anumāna-apekṣā (अनुमान-अपेक्षा)
Sanskrit, in depth
The words
| Word | Grammar | Sense |
|---|---|---|
| kāmāt (कामात्) | ablative singular, masculine | because of desire |
| ca (च) | indeclinable | and |
| na (न) | indeclinable | not |
| anumāna-apekṣā (अनुमान-अपेक्षा) | nominative singular, feminine | dependence on inference |
The phrases
The same chapter says he desired: may I be many, may I bring forth. A desire is a mark of a mind, heard in the text, of the same kind as the seeing in Śvetaketu (श्वेतकेतु)'s teaching.
So there is no need to lean on an inference that would install the pradhāna (प्रधान) as the cause of the blissful one. apekṣā (अपेक्षा) is that leaning. na cancels it.
Sanskrit in this line
kāmāt (कामात्) before ca is heard kāmāc (कामाच्). na plus a of anumāna (अनुमान) is nā (ना). apekṣā (अपेक्षा) is feminine, from apa plus īkṣ (ईक्ष्), 'looking toward'.
Say it back
Say kāma (काम) as the verb 'he desired', and say what it makes unnecessary.
Next
1.1.20. The text teaches the soul's joining to that blissful Brahman (ब्रह्मन्).