2.4.13
Brahma Sūtra / Adhyāya 2 / 2.4.13
ज्योतिराद्यधिष्ठानं तु तदामननात्प्राणवता शब्दात्
jyotir ādyadhiṣṭhānaṃ tu tadāmananātprāṇavatā śabdāt
The line
jyotir (ज्योतिर्), a compound: the beginning, and the rest, and the seat but, tadāmananātprāṇavata (तदामननात्प्राणवत), because of a word.
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 words of this line are the ones to keep. A shorter line after this one may leave them unsaid.
Split: jyotir (ज्योतिर्) + ādi-adhiṣṭhānaṃ (आदि-अधिष्ठानं) + tu (तु) + tadāmananātprāṇavatā (तदामननात्प्राणवता) + śabdāt (शब्दात्)
Sanskrit, in depth
The words
| Word | Grammar | Sense |
|---|---|---|
| jyotir (ज्योतिर्) | the form as the line writes it | this word, as the line writes it |
| ādi-adhiṣṭhānaṃ (आदि-अधिष्ठानं) | nominative or accusative singular, neuter | a compound: the beginning, and the rest, and the seat. Read it from the end |
| tu (तु) | indeclinable | but, and now |
| tadāmananātprāṇavatā (तदामननात्प्राणवता) | nominative singular, feminine, or instrumental singular | tadāmananātprāṇavata (तदामननात्प्राणवत) |
| śabdāt (शब्दात्) | ablative singular | a word |
The phrases
jyotir (ज्योतिर्) is this word, as the line writes it. It stands as the form as the line writes it. ādi-adhiṣṭhānaṃ (आदि-अधिष्ठानं) is a compound: the beginning, and the rest, and the seat. Read it from the end. It stands as nominative or accusative singular, neuter. tu (तु) is but, and now. It stands as indeclinable.
tadāmananātprāṇavatā (तदामननात्प्राणवता) is tadāmananātprāṇavata (तदामननात्प्राणवत). It stands as nominative singular, feminine, or instrumental singular. śabdāt (शब्दात्) is a word. It stands as ablative singular.
Sanskrit in this line
tadāmananātprāṇavatā (तदामननात्प्राणवता) is nominative singular, feminine, or instrumental singular. That ending is the work an English preposition would do.
Say it back
Cover the English. Gloss jyotir (ज्योतिर्) and ādi-adhiṣṭhānaṃ (आदि-अधिष्ठानं).
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2.4.14. Of of that, his and, because of a compound: eternal, and the state of being that.