Vijñāna Bhairava / The question (प्रश्न) / 6
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Vijñāna Bhairava (विज्ञान भैरव)
न हि वर्णविभेदेन देहभेदेन वा भवेत् ।
परत्वं निष्कलत्वेन सकलत्वे न तद् भवेत् na hi varṇavibhedena dehabhedena vā bhavet |
paratvaṃ niṣkalatvena sakalatve na tad bhavet
The line
Supremacy would not come by dividing the letters or the body. It is supremacy by being without parts. Where there are parts, that supremacy would not be.
नेपालीमा
वर्णको भेदले वा शरीरको भेदले परा हुँदैन। भागविहीन भएर मात्र परा हुन्छ। भाग भएको ठाउँमा त्यो हुँदैन।
Where it sits
The question closes. The next line asks him to cut the doubt. Then he speaks.
Split: na (न) + hi (हि) + varṇavibhedena (वर्णविभेदेन) + dehabhedena (देहभेदेन) + vā (वा) + bhavet (भवेत्) + paratvam (परत्वम्) + niṣkalatvena (निष्कलत्वेन) + sakalatve (सकलत्वे) + na (न) + tad (तद्) + bhavet (भवेत्)
Sanskrit, in depth
The words
| Word | Grammar | Sense |
|---|---|---|
| na (न) | the verse's na (न) | it would not be. |
| hi (हि) | indeclinable | indeed. It marks the reason. |
| varṇavibhedena (वर्णविभेदेन) | instrumental singular, masculine | by a division of letters. varṇa (वर्ण) is a letter. |
| dehabhedena (देहभेदेन) | instrumental singular, masculine | by a division of the body. deha (देह) is a body. |
| vā (वा) | indeclinable | or. |
| bhavet (भवेत्) | optative, third person singular | it would be. |
| paratvam (परत्वम्) | nominative singular, neuter | being supreme. |
| niṣkalatvena (निष्कलत्वेन) | instrumental singular, neuter | by being without parts. niṣkala (निष्कल) is partless. tva (त्व) makes the abstract. |
| sakalatve (सकलत्वे) | locative singular, neuter | when there are parts. |
| na (न) | the verse's na (न) | that would not be. |
| tad (तद्) | nominative singular, neuter | that. |
| bhavet (भवेत्) | optative, third person singular | it would be. |
The phrases
Two instrumentals name ways supremacy would not arrive. niṣkalatvena (निष्कलत्वेन) names the way it would. sakalatve (सकलत्वे) is the locative of the case where it would not.
Sanskrit in this line
bhavet (भवेत्) is the optative of bhū (भू). She is speaking of what would follow, not of a fact already finished.
Say it back
Say the verse's two ways, and the one way supremacy stands.