1.4.25
Brahma Sūtra / Adhyāya 1 / 1.4.25
साक्षाच् चोभयाम्नानात्
sākṣāc cobhayāmnānāt
The line
And directly, because both the arising and the return are recited.
नेपालीमा
र सोझै पनि, किनकि उत्पत्ति र फर्कनु दुवै पढाइएका छन्।
Where it sits
The prakṛti (प्रकृति) conclusion of 1.4.23 is still in force. ubhaya is origin and dissolution, the janma and the apyaya already used as marks of brahman (ब्रह्मन्). Madhva does not read the dissolution as 'made of him'. Rāmānuja (रामानुज) does, as return into his body. Śaṅkara (शङ्कर) reads it as the effect having no reality apart from the cause.
Split: sākṣāt (साक्षात्) + ca (च) + ubhaya-āmnānāt (उभय-आम्नानात्)
Sanskrit, in depth
The words
| Word | Grammar | Sense |
|---|---|---|
| sākṣāt (साक्षात्) | indeclinable | directly |
| ca (च) | indeclinable | and |
| ubhaya-āmnānāt (उभय-आम्नानात्) | ablative singular, neuter | because both are recited |
The phrases
ubhaya is the pair: coming forth from him, and merging back into him. āmnāna (आम्नान) is the recitation, the text's saying it. Both are said of the same Being, in the teaching to Śvetaketu (श्वेतकेतु) and elsewhere. Creatures come from Being and enter Being.
sākṣāt (साक्षात्) means this is direct, not a secondary sense laid on a maker who uses some other stuff. Dissolution into X is the mark that X was the material. ca adds this pair to the intention.
Sanskrit in this line
sākṣāt (साक्षात्) before ca is sākṣāc (साक्षाच्). ubhaya plus āmnāna (आम्नान): a plus ā (आ) becomes ā (आ). āmnāna (आम्नान) is neuter.
Say it back
Say the pair: they come out of him, they go back into him.