aprāptavibhāṣā

aprāptavibhāṣā Tatpur. f. (-ṣā) (In Grammar, esp. in the com-

mentaries on Pāṇini.) An option, enjoined by a rule, if the

latter does not refer to, and therefore is not a restriction of,

another, previous or subsequent, rule; it is distinct there-

fore from the prāptavibhāṣā or the option enjoined by a rule

which is a restriction of another rule, and the ubhayatravi-

bhāṣā or the option enjoined by a rule some portion of

which is and some portion of which is not a restriction of

another rule. It follows from this distinction that in Pā-

ṇini's definition of vibhāṣā (I. 1. 44. ‘na veti vibhāṣā’) both

terms na and vā apply simultaneously only to the prāptavi-

bhāṣā and ubhayatravibhāṣā and even more properly to the

latter alone, while only vā can be predicated of the aprā-

ptavibhāṣā, its purport not being negative with regard to

another rule but purely optional in itself; Patanjali: tatra

yā tāvadaprāpte vibhāṣā tatra pratiṣedhyaṃ nāstīti kṛtvā vetyanena

vikalpo bhaviṣyati . yā hi prāpte vibhāṣā tatrobhayamupasthitaṃ

bhavati . neti ca veti ca . tatra netyanena pratiṣiddhe vetyanena vi-

kalpo bhaviṣyati ..…ubhayatravibhāṣārthā ceyaṃ saṃjñā . prā-

ptavibhāṣāyāmaprāptavibhāṣāyāṃ ca saṃjñākaraṇasyānupayogāt .

tathā hi . prāptavibhāṣāsu pakṣe nivṛttiḥ kriyate pakṣe tu pravṛttiḥ

sthitaiva . aprāptavibhāṣāsu ca pakṣe kāryasya pravṛttiḥ kriyate pa-

kṣāntare tvapravṛttiḥ sthitaiveti nāsti tatra saṃjñāphalam &c.…

(Nagojibh.: evaṃ ca kevalaprāptavibhāṣāyāmubhayatravibhāṣāyāṃ

ca krameṇa niṣedhavikalpayorupasthitiḥ . śuddhāprāptavibhāṣāyāṃ

tu niṣedhasyānvayāyogyatvācchuddhavikalpopasthitiriti tātparyam

&c. &c.) Such aprāptavibhāṣā are in Pāṇini, e. g. in the

Sūtras: I. 1. 32, 2. 3, 2. 16, 3. 43; II. 4. 12; III. 1. 38, 1. 61,

3. 188, 4. 24; VI. 1. 208(?), 2. 161, 3. 59, 3. 72, 3. 106; VII. 3. 9,

4. 81; VIII. 1. 26, 2. 21; when in consequence of such an in-

terpretation of the option, the Sūtra I. 2. 16 e. g. becomes dis-

connected from I. 2. 15, II. 4. 12 from II. 4. 6, III. 1. 61 from

III. 1. 66, III. 4. 24 from III. 4. 22 &c. &c.--Compare also

prāptavibhāṣā, ubhayatravibhāṣā and vyavasthitavibhāṣā. E. a-

prāpta (in the sense of a locative) and vibhāṣā.

a-prāpta—vikalpa [Pāṇ. i, 3, 53 Comm.], m. or a-prāpta—vibhāṣā [Pāṇ. i, 3, 43, Sch.], f. the optional permission of an operation which without such permission would not take place at all.