2.2.28
Brahma Sūtra / Adhyāya 2 / 2.2.28
वैधर्म्याच् च न स्वप्नादिवत्
vaidharmyāc ca na svapnādivat
The line
Because of a difference of kind and, not a compound: dream, the beginning, and the rest, and possessing.
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. abhāva (अभाव) from 2.2.27 is still in force. A sūtra (सूत्र) leaves a word out when the line before still holds it. That carrying is anuvṛtti (अनुवृत्ति).
Split: vaidharmyāt (वैधर्म्यात्) + ca (च) + na (न) + svapna-ādi-vat (स्वप्न-आदि-वत्)
Sanskrit, in depth
The words
| Word | Grammar | Sense |
|---|---|---|
| vaidharmyāt (वैधर्म्यात्) | ablative singular | a difference of kind |
| ca (च) | indeclinable | and |
| na (न) | indeclinable | not |
| svapna-ādi-vat (स्वप्न-आदि-वत्) | a compound, the ending is on the last member | a compound: dream, the beginning, and the rest, and possessing. Read it from the end |
The phrases
vaidharmyāt (वैधर्म्यात्) is a difference of kind. It stands as ablative singular. The line writes it vaidharmyāc (वैधर्म्याच्). ca (च) is and. It stands as indeclinable.
na (न) is not. It stands as indeclinable. svapna-ādi-vat (स्वप्न-आदि-वत्) is a compound: dream, the beginning, and the rest, and possessing. Read it from the end. It stands as a compound, the ending is on the last member.
Sanskrit in this line
svapna-ādi-vat (स्वप्न-आदि-वत्) is one compound. The hyphen is a teaching mark. Only the last member wears the case. The line writes it vaidharmyāc (वैधर्म्याच्).
Say it back
Cover the English. Gloss vaidharmyāt (वैधर्म्यात्) and svapna-ādi-vat (स्वप्न-आदि-वत्).
Next
2.2.29. Not a being, a state. bhāvaḥ (भावः) before a voiced sound, of not being found.