Mimamsasutra 96
Śābarabhāṣya (Mīmāṃsāsūtrabhāṣya) 96
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96.1
prayogaśāstram iti cet //
"If it be argued that it is an authoritative manual of performance..." //
96.2
iha kalpasūtrāṇy udāharaṇam - māśakam, hāstikam, kauṇḍinyakam ityevaṃlakṣaṇakāni kiṃ pramāṇam apramāṇaṃ veti saṃdigdhāni. kiṃ prāptam. prayogasya śāstraṃ pramāṇam evaṃjātīyakam iti brūmaḥ. satyavācām etāni vacanāni. katham avagamyate. vaidikair eṣāṃ saṃvādo bhavati. ya eva hi vede grahāḥ, ta eveha, yā eva vede iṣṭakāḥ, tā eveha. tasmāt satyavāca ācāryāḥ. ācāryavacaḥ pramāṇam iti ca śrutiḥ. pratyakṣataḥ prāmāṇyam anavagatam iti yady ucyeta, pramāṇāntareṇa vacanenāvagatam iti na doṣaḥ. vedavākyaiś caiṣāṃ tulya ādaraḥ. tasmāt pramāṇam.
Here, the Kalpasūtras are the example: there is doubt whether texts characterized as Māśaka, Hāstika, Kauṇḍinyaka, and the like are authoritative or non-authoritative. What is the prima facie position? We say that an authoritative manual of this sort, teaching the performance, is authoritative. These are the words of speakers of truth. How is this known? There is agreement between these and the Vedic texts. For the very cups that are in the Veda are here; the very bricks that are in the Veda are here. Therefore, the Teachers are speakers of truth. And there is the direct scriptural statement that 'the word of the Teacher is authoritative'. If it is objected that their authoritativeness is not known through direct perception, there is no defect, as it is known through another means of valid knowledge, namely [scriptural] assertion. And they enjoy equal regard alongside Vedic sentences. Therefore, they are authoritative.
96.3
NOTES:
*{1/590: E1 (Fn.): iṣṭayaḥ}*
NOTES:
*{1/590: E1 (Fn.): iṣṭayaḥ}*
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- Mīmāṃsāsūtra — Jaimini, Sanskrit