codana
चोदना codanāVedic injunction or command. For Mimamsa, dharma is known only through codana, not through perception or reason.
Where this term appears
- What is Mimamsa? Philosophy
(Mimamsa Sutra 1.1.1) And it answers its own question at once, in the second aphorism, with a definition that fixes the whole character of the school: codana-lakshano 'rtho dharmah.