1.4.18
Brahma Sūtra / Adhyāya 1 / 1.4.18
अन्यार्थं तु जैमिनिः प्रश्नव्याख्यानाभ्यामपि चैवमेके
anyārthaṃ tu jaiminiḥ praśnavyākhyānābhyām api caivam eke
The line
But Jaimini says the reference has another aim, from the question and the explanation, and some recite it so.
नेपालीमा
तर जैमिनि भन्छन्, प्रश्न र व्याख्याबाट सङ्केतको अर्कै लक्ष्य छ, र कसैले त्यसरी पढाउँछन्।
Where it sits
The marks objected to in 1.4.17 are what Jaimini gives another aim. The dialogue is still Bālāki (बालाकि) and the king. This is Jaimini's reading of those marks, alongside the pointer to 1.1.32.
Split: anya-artham (अन्य-अर्थम्) + tu (तु) + jaiminiḥ (जैमिनिः) + praśna-vyākhyānābhyām (प्रश्न-व्याख्यानाभ्याम्) + api (अपि) + ca (च) + evam (एवम्) + eke (एके)
Sanskrit, in depth
The words
| Word | Grammar | Sense |
|---|---|---|
| anya-artham (अन्य-अर्थम्) | accusative singular, masculine | another aim |
| tu (तु) | indeclinable | but |
| jaiminiḥ (जैमिनिः) | nominative singular, masculine | Jaimini |
| praśna-vyākhyānābhyām (प्रश्न-व्याख्यानाभ्याम्) | instrumental dual, neuter | by the question and by the explanation |
| api (अपि) | indeclinable | also |
| ca (च) | indeclinable | and |
| evam (एवम्) | indeclinable | thus |
| eke (एके) | nominative plural, masculine | some |
The phrases
Jaimini's point, tu marking his turn: the reference to the individual has anya-artha, a different aim. The aim is fixed by the question Bālāki (बालाकि) is answering and by the explanation the king gives. praśna (प्रश्न) and vyākhyāna (व्याख्यान) are those two. The soul-language serves them. It is not the subject the dialogue exists to name.
api ca evam eke: and some reciters, the Vājasaneyins (वाजसनेयिन्) among them, read the passage in that same way, so that the question and the answer aim at the self in the heart as brahman (ब्रह्मन्).
Sanskrit in this line
The dual -ābhyām (-आभ्याम्) is instrumental. anya-artham is accusative, the content of his view. ca plus evam is caivam. eke is nominative plural.
Say it back
Say Jaimini's 'other aim' as the question the king was actually answering.