1.4.4
Brahma Sūtra / Adhyāya 1 / 1.4.4
ज्ञेयत्वावचनाच् च
jñeyatvāvacanāc ca
The line
And because the text does not say that the unmanifest is the thing to be known, it is not the pradhāna (प्रधान).
नेपालीमा
र पाठले अव्यक्त जानिने वस्तु हो भन्दैन, त्यसैले यो प्रधान होइन।
Where it sits
The avyakta of 1.4.1 is still the thing not called jñeya (ज्ञेय). The person of that verse is what is to be known instead.
Split: jñeyatva-avacanāt (ज्ञेयत्व-अवचनात्) + ca (च)
Sanskrit, in depth
The words
| Word | Grammar | Sense |
|---|---|---|
| jñeyatva-avacanāt (ज्ञेयत्व-अवचनात्) | ablative singular, neuter | because there is no statement that it is the thing to be known |
| ca (च) | indeclinable | and |
The phrases
In the Sāṃkhya (सांख्य), the pradhāna (प्रधान) is a primary knowable. Discrimination from it is the knowledge that frees. jñeya (ज्ञेय) is 'to be known'. The Kaṭha (कठ) does not say the unmanifest is what one must know. It says the person beyond it is the end, the highest goal, and there is nothing beyond the person.
avacana is the non-statement. ca adds it to the dependence of the previous line. The same shape, a non-statement, was used at 1.1.8 for 'not said to be abandoned'.
Sanskrit in this line
a plus a inside jñeya-tva-avacana (ज्ञेय-त्व-अवचन) is already ā (आ): jñeyatvāvacana (ज्ञेयत्वावचन). Before ca, t is heard as c.
Say it back
Contrast two knowables: the Sāṃkhya (सांख्य)'s pradhāna (प्रधान), and this text's person.