Sutra 10

Devanagari script

तेन चण्डालाशुचयो व्याख्यातः ॥ कZ_०३.१९.१० ॥

Transliteration

tena caṇḍālāśucayo vyākhyātaḥ

Translation

इसी नियम से चाण्डाल और अन्य ‘अशुचि’ व्यक्तियों के विषय में भी समझना चाहिए (अर्थात् यह प्रावधान उन पर भी समान रूप से लागू है)।

Word by Word

• तेन: by that; with that (reason/criterion)
• Type: Pronoun
• Root: तद्
• Form: सर्वनाम-प्रातिपदिक (तद्); तृतीया-एकवचन; नपुंसकलिङ्ग (instrumental sg. ‘by/with that’).

• चण्डाल: Caṇḍālas (outcastes)
• Type: Noun
• Root: चण्डाल
• Form: पुंलिङ्ग; प्रथमा-बहुवचन (stem used as first member of a dvandva with अशुचयः).

• अशुचयः: the impure (persons)
• Type: Noun/Adjective (substantivized)
• Root: अशुचि
• Form: पुंलिङ्ग; प्रथमा-बहुवचन; ‘impure persons’ (adjective used as noun).

• व्याख्यातः: has been explained; has been set forth
• Type: Verb (past passive participle)
• Root: वि-आ-ख्या
• Form: कृदन्त (क्त); प्रथमा-एकवचन; पुंलिङ्ग; ‘has been explained/defined’ (agreeing with an implied विषयः/अर्थः).

Entities Mentioned

• Caṇḍāla
• aśuci (unclean persons)

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FAQs

What drafting technique is being used here?

A shorthand interpretive clause: one rule is declared to apply ‘mutatis mutandis’ to additional social categories, reducing repetition.