1.4.16
Brahma Sūtra / Adhyāya 1 / 1.4.16
जगद्वाचित्वात्
jagadvācitvāt
The line
He is Brahman (ब्रह्मन्), because what is denoted is the world.
नेपालीमा
ऊ ब्रह्म हो, किनकि जनाइएको संसार हो।
Where it sits
A new passage, Bālāki (बालाकि). The cause of 1.4.14 is the kind of thing being identified again: the maker of the world. jagat is the work, not a new metaphysical term.
Split: jagat-vācitvāt (जगत्-वाचित्वात्)
Sanskrit, in depth
The words
| Word | Grammar | Sense |
|---|---|---|
| jagat-vācitvāt (जगत्-वाचित्वात्) | ablative singular, neuter | because the world is what is denoted |
The phrases
The passage is Bālāki (बालाकि) and Ajātaśatru (अजातशत्रु). Bālāki (बालाकि) offers the person in the sun, the moon, lightning, space, wind, fire, water, the mirror, sound, the quarters, the shadow, the body. The king says these are not enough, and teaches the maker of all that, the self in the heart, from whom the breaths and the worlds go out.
The work, the karma (कर्म), that this maker is said to have done denotes the world, jagat. vācitva (वाचित्व) is 'the fact of denoting'. A chief breath, or one soul, is not the maker of the world. The one whose work is the world is brahman (ब्रह्मन्).
Sanskrit in this line
jagat plus vācitva (वाचित्व). vācitva (वाचित्व) is neuter abstract from vācaka (वाचक), 'denoting'. One ablative.
Say it back
Name the two speakers. Say that the king's self is the maker, and the work is the world.
Next
1.4.17. Marks of the soul and of the chief breath were already answered.