Tarka-Saṃgraha / 38. A cause
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कार्यनियतपूर्ववृत्ति कारणम् kāryaniyatapūrvavṛtti kāraṇam
The line
A cause is what regularly precedes the effect.
नेपालीमा
कारण त्यो हो जुन कार्यभन्दा नियमित रूपमा अघि हुन्छ।
Where it sits
39 says what an effect is, using the prior absence from 9.
Split: kārya-niyata-pūrva-vṛtti (कार्य-नियत-पूर्व-वृत्ति) + kāraṇam (कारणम्)
Sanskrit, in depth
The words
| Word | Grammar | Sense |
|---|---|---|
| kārya-niyata-pūrva-vṛtti (कार्य-नियत-पूर्व-वृत्ति) | nominative singular, neuter | What occurs before, and is fixed to the effect. It is there whenever the effect is, and it is there before. |
| kāraṇam (कारणम्) | nominative singular, neuter | A cause. |
The phrases
A cause is a prior condition that does not wander off from its effect.
Sanskrit in this line
The long compound is one nominative. Read it from the end: a prior occurrence fixed to the effect.
Say it back
Say the two things a cause has to be: earlier, and steady.