Shringaraprakasha 6.p1.9

6.p1.9

ataḥ pradhānasaṃskāroparodhatiraskārāya kartānapekṣitasaṃkhyāviśeṣassāmāśrīyate | nanu ca prayojanamidaṃ pradhānāntarasiddhiḥ | tasmādavivakṣāyāmupapattirvaktavyā | iyamucyate | sāmānyanibandhanatvādīpsitatamaśabdasya saṃbandhināmaviśeṣeṇa praśaktau sādhanāntarocchittaye kartṛgrahaṇaṃ kriyate | tadupāttaviparītapratiṣedhamātropakṣayamasamarthaṃ saṃkhyābhedamaṅgīkartumiti | 6.4. śaktiḥ punarapradhāne padhāne vā saṃkhyāvati vibhaktyā vidhīyamānā vivakṣāmevānurudyate | evaṃ ca yathā paśvādīnāṃ sasaṃkhyātā tathā grahādīnāmasaṃkhyānāmeva kriyāsu sādhanabhāvo bhavati | kathaṃ panaḥ paśvādigatā saṃkhyā sādhanatvenāvagamyate, yāvatā prātipadikārthasya sākṣātpāraṃparyeṇa vā saṃbandhisādhanatvaṃ saṃkhyā ca vibhaktyā vidhīyate | nu tu saṃkhyāsādhanatvayoḥ paraspareṇa saṃbandho'sti | evaṃ tarhi prathamataraṃ vyaktissaṃkhyayā saṃbadhyate | saṃkhyā saṃsargaprāptātiśayā tu sādhanabhāvena | so'yaṃ sādhanabhāvo viśiṣṭe nipatadviśeṣaṇamapi sādhanamityāvedayati | yathā sāyudhena jītamiti | kutaḥ punarayaṃ saṃkhyāsādhanatvayorekaśebdepanindhanayobandhakārikālabhedena saṃbandhaḥ | na hyetadasti | saṃkhyayā saṃsargamanavāpya na śaknoti sādhanabhāvamāsādayitumiti | evaṃ tarhi saṃkhyāsādhanabhāvābhyāṃ vyaktissaṃbadhyate | tābhyamupahitātmātiśayāmākhyātavithabhaktistāṃ krayiāsu viniyuṅkte | sā viśiṣṭā kriyāsaṃbandhamanubhavatīti viśeṣaṇamapi kriyāsaṃbaddhaṃ pratīyate | nanu ca karmakaraṇādikārakaṃ vibhaktyarthastañca kriyāsiddhāvupāttavyāpātvācchaktimaddravyameva |

Therefore, in order to set aside the obstruction of the primary element's preparation, the agent is resorted to as an undifferentiated general class, whose particular number is not intended. But surely this is only the objective—the accomplishment of another primary element; therefore, the justification for [such] absence of intention must be stated. This is stated [as follows]:

Because the word denoting the most desired object (īpsitatama) is based on a generality, when relations present themselves without distinction, the mention of the agent (kartṛ) is made in order to eliminate other means of action (sādhana). Having exhausted its function merely in precluding the opposite of what is grasped, it is incapable of adopting a distinction of number. (6.4)

Again, capacity (śakti), being enjoined by an inflectional suffix upon a secondary or primary entity possessing number, merely conforms to the speaker's intention (vivakṣā). And thus, just as animals and the like possess number, so cups and the like possess the status of means (sādhanabhāva) in ritual actions without their number being meant. How, then, is the number residing in the animal and the like understood as an instrument of action, given that the nominal stem's meaning (prātipadikārtha) has the status of an instrument belonging to a relatum either directly or indirectly, while number is enjoined by the case suffix? For there is no direct mutual relation between number and instrumenthood. If so, then the individual entity is connected first of all with number; but once it has acquired an enhancement through its connection with number, it connects with instrumenthood. This instrumenthood, falling upon the qualified entity, conveys that even the qualifier is an instrument of action—just as in the phrase 'he won while equipped with a weapon.' From what, however, does this relation between number and instrumenthood arise, when they are grounded in a single word with an unbroken syntactic function? For it is not the case that without attaining contact with number, it is unable to attain instrumenthood. If so, then the individual is connected with both number and instrumenthood; the verbal inflection (ākhyātavibhakti) assigns to actions that very [individual] whose nature is enhanced by the two. As that qualified entity experiences connection with the action, the qualifier too is understood as connected with the action. But isn't the case-meaning (vibhaktyartha) the syntactic role (kāraka)—such as object or instrument—and that is simply the substance possessing capacity, because its operation is undertaken for the accomplishment of the action?