2.2.27
Brahma Sūtra / Adhyāya 2 / 2.2.27
नाभाव उपलब्धेः
nābhāva upalabdheḥ
The line
Not absence, of a finding.
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. udāsīnā-nāma (उदासीना-नाम) from 2.2.26 is still in force. A sūtra (सूत्र) leaves a word out when the line before still holds it. That carrying is anuvṛtti (अनुवृत्ति).
Split: na (न) + abhāva (अभाव) + upalabdheḥ (उपलब्धेः)
Sanskrit, in depth
The words
| Word | Grammar | Sense |
|---|---|---|
| na (न) | indeclinable | not |
| abhāva (अभाव) | the stem, as the line writes it | absence |
| upalabdheḥ (उपलब्धेः) | genitive or ablative singular | a finding |
The phrases
na (न) is not. It stands as indeclinable. abhāva (अभाव) is absence. It stands as the stem, as the line writes it.
upalabdheḥ (उपलब्धेः) is a finding. It stands as genitive or ablative singular.
Sanskrit in this line
upalabdheḥ (उपलब्धेः) is genitive or ablative singular. That ending is the work an English preposition would do.
Say it back
Cover the English. Gloss abhāva (अभाव) and upalabdheḥ (उपलब्धेः).