युक्तियुक्तार्थवाक्यानि कल्पितानि पृथक्पृथक् । दृष्टान्तसारसूक्तानि चाऽस्यां प्रकरणानि षट् ॥ १० ॥
yuktiyuktārthavākyāni kalpitāni pṛthakpṛthak | dṛṣṭāntasārasūktāni cā’syāṁ prakaraṇāni ṣaṭ || 10 ||
Translation
In it there are six prakaraṇas, made one after another, with words whose sense is joined to reasoning, and with excellent sayings full of the essence of illustrations.
Word by word
- yukti
- to reasoning
- yukta
- joined
- artha
- whose sense
- vākyāni
- with words
- kalpitāni
- made
- pṛthak
- one after another
- dṛṣṭānta
- of illustrations
- sāra
- full of the essence
- sūktāni
- with excellent sayings
- ca
- and
- asyāṁ
- in it
- prakaraṇāni
- prakaraṇas
- ṣaṭ
- six
Meaning
The commentary describes the six as full of sentences with reasoned meaning and of stories with the best illustrations. That is the method of the whole work: argument and story together. The stories are not decoration around the doctrine; they are how the doctrine is shown.