1.1.2
Brahma Sūtra / Adhyāya 1 / 1.1.2
जन्माद्यस्य यतः
janmādy asya yataḥ
The line
Brahman (ब्रह्मन्) is that from which the arising of this, and what follows arising, proceed.
नेपालीमा
ब्रह्म त्यो हो जसबाट यसको उत्पत्ति र उत्पत्तिपछिका कुरा चल्छन्।
Where it sits
1.1.1 named the inquiry. 1.1.2 says what the object is, by its relation to the world, not by a list of qualities. 1.1.3 will say how you know a thing defined this way. You cannot see a source of all arising the way you see a pot.
Split: janma-ādi (जन्म-आदि) + asya (अस्य) + yataḥ (यतः)
Sanskrit, in depth
The words
| Word | Grammar | Sense |
|---|---|---|
| janma-ādi (जन्म-आदि) | nominative singular, neuter | arising and the rest. ādi (आदि) means 'and what follows the item named.' The rest, in the Taittirīya (तैत्तिरीय) sentence this line is pointing at, is staying and dissolving. |
| asya (अस्य) | genitive singular, neuter | of this. Of this world, the thing in front of you. The noun is carried in from the topic, not spoken. |
| yataḥ (यतः) | ablative singular | from which. The source. |
The phrases
The line is a definition by pointing. Brahman (ब्रह्मन्), the object of the desire in 1.1.1, is yataḥ (यतः), that from which. What comes from it is janmādi (जन्मादि) asya, the birth and the rest of this.
Śaṅkara (शङ्कर) reads the 'rest' as sthiti and bhaṅga (भङ्ग), staying and perishing, because the Taittirīya (तैत्तिरीय) says the world is born from that, and returns into that. Rāmānuja (रामानुज) and Madhva also take Brahman (ब्रह्मन्) as the cause. They do not take the world as less than real. The sūtra (सूत्र) itself says 'from which,' and stops.
Sanskrit in this line
yataḥ (यतः) is the ablative of the relative ya. It means 'from which,' and the correlative 'that' is Brahman (ब्रह्मन्), still in force from 1.1.1. janmādi (जन्मादि) is a compound of the type 'X and the rest.' The genitive asya says whose arising.
Say it back
Close the page. From what, and of what, does arising come?