Text 10.95 [Dīpaka]

15. Dīpaka

सकृद् वृत्तिस् तु धर्मस्य प्रकृताप्रकृतात्मनाम् ।
सैव क्रियासु बह्वीषु कारकस्येति दीपकम् ॥ १०.१०३ ॥

sakṛd vṛttis tu dharmasya prakṛtāprakṛtātmanām |
saiva kriyāsu bahvīṣu kārakasyeti dīpakam ||10.103||

sakṛt—single; vṛttiḥ—occurrence; tu—(used to express a new beginning); dharmasya—of the attribute; prakṛta-aprakṛta-ātmanām—of the [things which are of the] nature of prakṛta (the subject of description) and aprakṛta (not the subject of description); sā eva—that same one (a single mention); kriyāsu bahvīṣu—when there are many actions; kārakasya—of a noun (a kāraka is one declined word which is neither in the genitive case that has the sense of sambandha (possession) nor in the vocative) (in dīpaka, usually the kāraka is in the nominative case); iti—in this way; dīpakam—the ornament called dīpaka.

There are two varieties of dīpaka (illuminator): (1) The attribute which the contextual thing and the noncontextual things have in common is mentioned only once (this is kriyā-dīpaka), and (2) Many verbs are stated for one noun (this is kāraka-dīpaka).

upamānopameyāṇāṃ dharmaḥ kriyādir yadi sakṛd upādīyate yadi vā bahvīṣu kriyāsv ekaṃ kārakaṃ tadā dīpakam.

If the attribute common to both the upameya and the upamānas is stated one time, or else if there is one noun for many verbs, that is dīpaka.