Sarvadarshanasangraha 13.11

13.11

tasyārthasya jhaṭ iti pratipattaye atha vyākaraṇam ity evābhidhīyatām/ atha śabdānuśāsanam ity adhikākṣaraṃ mudhābhidhīyata iti/ maivam/ śabdānuśāsanam ity anvarthasamākhyopādāne tadīyavedāṅgatvapratipādakaprayojanānvākhyānasiddheḥ/ anyathā prayojanānabhidhāne vyākaraṇādhyayane ’dhyetṝṇāṃ pravṛttir eva na prasajyet/ nanu niṣkāraṇo dharmaḥ ṣaḍaṅgo vedo ’dhyetavya ity adhyetavyatvavidhānād eva pravṛttiḥ setsyatīti cet,

"Well, then, for the sake of directly understanding this intended meaning, it would have been better to have said 'now comes grammar,' as the words 'now comes the exposition of words' involve a useless excess of letters." This objection cannot, however, be allowed, since the employment of such a word as śabdānuśāsanam, the sense of which can be so readily inferred from its etymology, proves that the author intends to imply an end which shall establish that grammar is a subordinate study (aṅga) to the Veda.[9] Otherwise, if there were no such end set forth, there would be no consequent application of the readers to the study of grammar. Nor may you say that this application will be sufficiently enforced by the injunction for study, "the Veda with its six subordinate parts must be read as a duty without any (special) end,"[10] because, even though there be such an injunction, it will not follow that students will apply to this study, if no end is mentioned which will establish that it is an aṅga of the Veda. Thus in old times the students, after reading the Veda, used to be in haste to say—