Vyākaraṇa-mahābhāṣya paspaśā 4.3

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MBH paspaśā 4.3

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Vṛtti Patañjali

yat adhītam .

yat adhītam (‘what has been studied’) —

'यत् अधीतम्' —

yat adhītam avijñātam nigadena eva śabdyate anagnau iva śuṣkaidhaḥ na tat jvalati karhi cit .

What has been studied but not understood, and is merely sounded out by recitation — like dry fuel where there is no fire, that never blazes at any time.

जो पढ़ा हुआ अविज्ञात (अर्थ जाने बिना) है, वह केवल निगद (उच्चारण-मात्र) से ही बोला जाता है; बिना अग्नि की सूखी लकड़ी के समान वह कभी नहीं जलता।

tasmāt anarthakam mā adhigīṣmahi iti adhyeyam vyākaraṇam. yat adhītam .

‘Therefore may we not recite to no purpose’ — thus (iti) vyākaraṇa is to be studied. yat adhītam.

इसलिए 'हम निरर्थक (अर्थ जाने बिना) अध्ययन न करें' — इस हेतु व्याकरण पढ़ना चाहिए। 'यत् अधीतम्' —

Translator notes mūla-only construal · not shown in the reading edition

Dialectic construal: s1 is the opening pratīka; s2 the cited verse-maxim expounding it; s3 the concluding injunction plus the closing pratīka, which the source has run together into one segment. Wholly expository — no pūrvapakṣa.
SOURCE SEGMENTATION: s3 contains both the closing injunction and the closing pratīka 'yat adhītam' in a single segment, whereas in the parallel blocks (4.1, 4.2, 4.11, 4.13) the closing pratīka is its own segment. Noted as a probable segmentation artefact; the 1:1 mapping is preserved and both parts are rendered inside s3.
s2 nigadena eva śabdyate: 'is merely sounded out by recitation'. s2 is elliptical — the relative yat has no expressed correlative until 'na tat jvalati'; rendered literally with the simile in place.
s3 adhigīṣmahi: taken as a precative of adhi-√gā, 'may we recite/study'. The form is unusual; flagged.

Dialectic construal: siddhānta throughout; same pratīka-bracket pattern as 4.1/4.2, except that here the closing pratīka sits inside s3 rather than in a segment of its own.
s2: 'anagnau iva śuṣkaidhaḥ' literally 'like dry fuel in a non-fire'; I rendered 'बिना अग्नि की सूखी लकड़ी के समान'. 'na tat jvalati' — the neuter 'tat' picks up 'yat adhītam', not the fuel; I kept that reference.

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