Verse 2.195

Sanskrit text, Unicode transliteration and English translation of verse 2.195:

समुच्चिताभिधानेऽपि व्यतिरेको न विद्यते ।
असत्त्वभूतो भावश्च क्रियाऽन्येनाभिधीयते ॥ १९५ ॥

samuccitābhidhāne'pi vyatireko na vidyate |
asattvabhūto bhāvaśca kriyā'nyenābhidhīyate || 195 ||

195. Even if they denote the things collected (and not the collection), there is no diversity (which is the basis for the use of the sixth case-ending). It is a thing which is not an entity (that is expressed by the particles). Action is expressed by other kinds of words.

Commentary

[It might be said that if ca denotes samuccaya, then the noun used with it would take the sixth case-ending as it does when used with the word samuccaya. One says Vṛkṣasya samuccayaḥ, plakṣasya samuccayaḥ. So it must be deemed to denote not samuccaya = collection but the samuccita = things collected, which, when expressed by ca is asattva, something which is not an entity. This is due to the nature of words (śabdaśakti). The main idea in this verse is that words denote meanings according to their nature. It is the nature of particles like ca to denote the asattva, the non-entity. Pacati and pāka both mean cooking, but the former conveys cooking as asattva, not a concrete entity but a process, whereas the latter conveys cooking as a thing, an entity, not as a process. This difference in the power of words is natural and not the result of teaching.

The Vṛtti had the reading: tiṅpadair[?] abhidhīyate, instead of kriyānyenābhidhīyate adopted by Puṇyarāja. The translation follows the latter.]