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autpattika

औत्पत्तिक autpattika

Innate or original; in Mimamsa, the doctrine that the bond between a word and its meaning is autpattika, naturally given rather than humanly conventional, used to argue the Veda is eternal.

Where this term appears

  • The Seers Who Heard Treatise

    …nd following), argues that the connection between word and meaning is autpattika , inborn and natural, not established by any person at some moment in time.

  • When, and Whose Treatise

    …t afternoon the laws of number were enacted (Mimamsa Sutra 1.1.5, the autpattika sutra, with Shabara's commentary, in Jha 1933-1936).

  • What is Mimamsa? Philosophy

    Jaimini calls this bond autpattika , inborn or primordial ( Mimamsa Sutra 1.1.5).

  • Śabda eternal Treatise

    The statement sits early in the first chapter of Jaimini, and it is a sūtra of the school, a line of philosophical argument and not a liturgical formula: autpattikas tu śabdasyārthena sambandhaḥ .

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