1.2.14
Brahma Sūtra / Adhyāya 1 / 1.2.14
स्थानादिव्यपदेशाच् च
sthānādivyapadeśāc ca
The line
And because abode and the rest are stated, the person in the eye is Brahman (ब्रह्मन्).
नेपालीमा
र आश्रय आदि भनिएकाले आँखाको पुरुष ब्रह्म हो।
Where it sits
antaraḥ (अन्तरः) from 1.2.13 is still the subject. The inner-ruler sentence is used as a mark, not yet as its own topic. That topic starts at 1.2.19.
Split: sthāna-ādi-vyapadeśāt (स्थान-आदि-व्यपदेशात्) + ca (च)
Sanskrit, in depth
The words
| Word | Grammar | Sense |
|---|---|---|
| sthāna-ādi-vyapadeśāt (स्थान-आदि-व्यपदेशात्) | ablative singular, masculine | because abode and what follows it are stated |
| ca (च) | indeclinable | and |
The phrases
sthāna (स्थान) is the place: within the eye. ādi (आदि) covers the rest that the text adds, the ruling and the names. Another sentence, in the inner-ruler passage, says he who dwells in the eye and rules the eye within. The same predicates are recognized here.
ca adds this statement of place and rule to the fitness of the previous line.
Sanskrit in this line
Read the compound from vyapadeśa (व्यपदेश): a stating, of place and the rest. Before ca, t is heard as c.
Say it back
Gloss sthāna (स्थान) as the eye, and ādi (आदि) as the ruling that goes with it.
Next
1.2.15. The section is about Brahman (ब्रह्मन्) qualified by pleasure.