1.1.8
Brahma Sūtra / Adhyāya 1 / 1.1.8
हेयत्वावचनाच् च
heyatvāvacanāc ca
The line
And because the text does not say that the cause is to be abandoned, it is not the pradhāna (प्रधान).
नेपालीमा
र पाठले कारण त्यागिने हो भन्दैन, त्यसैले यो प्रधान होइन।
Where it sits
ca continues the reasons begun at īkṣateḥ (ईक्षतेः) in 1.1.5. The subject is still that cause, not the pradhāna (प्रधान).
Split: heyatva-avacanāt (हेयत्व-अवचनात्) + ca (च)
Sanskrit, in depth
The words
| Word | Grammar | Sense |
|---|---|---|
| heyatva-avacanāt (हेयत्व-अवचनात्) | ablative singular, neuter | because there is no statement that it is to be abandoned |
| ca (च) | indeclinable | and |
The phrases
ca adds a reason. heya is what one should leave. If the cause were the pradhāna (प्रधान), the teaching would speak of it as the thing the soul must drop. This passage does not.
avacana is a non-statement. The abstract heyatva is 'being something to be abandoned'. The text's silence on that point is itself a reason.
Sanskrit in this line
a plus a inside heyatva-avacana has already become ā (आ), so the word is heyatvāvacana (हेयत्वावचन). Before ca the final t is recited as c.
Say it back
Gloss heya, and say what the text refuses to say about the cause.
Next
1.1.9. Reading the cause as the pradhāna (प्रधान) would break the opening promise.