1.3.12
Brahma Sūtra / Adhyāya 1 / 1.3.12
ईक्षतिकर्मव्यपदेशात् सः
īkṣatikarmavyapadeśāt saḥ
The line
He is Brahman (ब्रह्मन्), because the text designates him as the object of the knowers' seeing.
नेपालीमा
ऊ ब्रह्म हो, किनकि पाठले उसलाई जान्नेहरूले देख्ने विषय भनेर तोक्छ।
Where it sits
saḥ (सः) is the akṣaram (अक्षरम्) of 1.3.9. The seeing is the seeing in Gārgī (गार्गी)'s chapter and in the sentences that say the wise see it. This closes the imperishable. The next line is the small space.
Split: īkṣati-karma-vyapadeśāt (ईक्षति-कर्म-व्यपदेशात्) + saḥ (सः)
Sanskrit, in depth
The words
| Word | Grammar | Sense |
|---|---|---|
| īkṣati-karma-vyapadeśāt (ईक्षति-कर्म-व्यपदेशात्) | ablative singular, masculine | because he is designated as the object of seeing |
| saḥ (सः) | nominative singular, masculine | he |
The phrases
karman here is the grammatical object. īkṣati (ईक्षति) is seeing. The knowers are said to see the imperishable, to know it as the one thing to be known. He is the object of that seeing.
saḥ (सः), masculine, takes the imperishable as a person, the one already identified. The designation of him as what is seen settles him as brahman (ब्रह्मन्), the one other passages also call the seen, not as a blank inferred stuff that no one sees.
Sanskrit in this line
saḥ (सः) at the end of a line is recited saḥ (सः), with visarga, since nothing follows. karma (कर्म) in the compound is 'object', not 'rite' and not 'deed'.
Say it back
Gloss karman as object, and saḥ (सः) as the imperishable spoken of as he.