2.1.17
Brahma Sūtra / Adhyāya 2 / 2.1.17
सत्वाच् चापरस्य
satvāc cāparasya
The line
A compound: what is, and speech, of cāpara (चापर).
Where it sits
In Brahma Sūtra (सूत्र), adhyāya (अध्याय) 2. Avirodha. The teaching does not collide with reasoning, or with the other systems, in the way an objector claims. The line is short. bhāve (भावे) from 2.1.16 is still in force. A sūtra (सूत्र) leaves a word out when the line before still holds it. That carrying is anuvṛtti (अनुवृत्ति).
Split: sat-vāc (सत्-वाच्) + cāparasya (चापरस्य)
Sanskrit, in depth
The words
| Word | Grammar | Sense |
|---|---|---|
| sat-vāc (सत्-वाच्) | a compound, the ending is on the last member | a compound: what is, and speech. Read it from the end |
| cāparasya (चापरस्य) | genitive singular | cāpara (चापर) |
The phrases
sat-vāc (सत्-वाच्) is a compound: what is, and speech. Read it from the end. It stands as a compound, the ending is on the last member.
cāparasya (चापरस्य) is cāpara (चापर). It stands as genitive singular.
Sanskrit in this line
cāparasya (चापरस्य) is genitive singular. That ending is the work an English preposition would do.
Say it back
Cover the English. Gloss sat-vāc (सत्-वाच्) and cāparasya (चापरस्य).