Tarka-Saṃgraha / 7. Particulars without end
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नित्यद्रव्यवृत्तयो विशेषास् त्वनन्ता एव nityadravyavṛttayo viśeṣās tv anantā eva
The line
The particulars reside in the eternal substances, and they are simply endless.
नेपालीमा
विशेषहरू नित्य द्रव्यमा बस्छन्, र तिनीहरू केवल अनन्त छन्।
Where it sits
78 adds that they are vyāvartaka (व्यावर्तक), what wards one off from another. The eternal substances are the atoms of the four, and ether, time, direction, the selves, and the minds. A pot has no viśeṣa (विशेष) of this kind. Its distinctions stop at a class.
Split: nitya-dravya-vṛttayaḥ (नित्य-द्रव्य-वृत्तयः) + viśeṣāḥ (विशेषाः) + tu (तु) + anantāḥ (अनन्ताः) + eva (एव)
Sanskrit, in depth
The words
| Word | Grammar | Sense |
|---|---|---|
| nitya-dravya-vṛttayaḥ (नित्य-द्रव्य-वृत्तयः) | nominative plural, masculine | Residing in eternal substances. vṛtti (वृत्ति) is where something obtains. |
| viśeṣāḥ (विशेषाः) | nominative plural, masculine | Particulars. From 2. Heard viśeṣās (विशेषास्) before tu (तु). |
| tu (तु) | indeclinable | And, marking this category off from the one before. |
| anantāḥ (अनन्ताः) | nominative plural, masculine | Endless. Heard anantā (अनन्ता) before eva (एव). |
| eva (एव) | indeclinable | Just. Quite without a last one. |
The phrases
The common gathers. The particular keeps one eternal substance from being another, and there is no last particular.
Sanskrit in this line
Viśeṣāḥ (विशेषाः) before tu (तु) is viśeṣās (विशेषास्). A visarga before t (त्) is heard as s (स्).
Anantāḥ (अनन्ताः) before eva (एव) loses the visarga, and the two vowels stand in anantā eva (अनन्ता एव).
Say it back
Say where a viśeṣa (विशेष) resides, and whether the primer gives them a number.