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Aptamīmāṁsā
The word 'syāt' is used to assert a particular attribute of the object of knowledge and explicatory of the manifold points of view (anekānta):
वाक्येष्वनेकान्तद्योती गम्यं प्रति विशेषणम् । स्यान्निपातोऽर्थयोगित्वात्तव केवलिनामपि ॥१०३॥
सामान्यार्थ - हे भगवन् ! 'स्यात्' शब्द अर्थ (ज्ञेय पदार्थ) के साथ सम्बद्ध (जैसे 'स्यादस्ति घटः' में) होने के कारण अनेकान्त का द्योतक होता है। केवलियों और श्रुतकेवलियों के भी वाक्यों में प्रयुक्त ‘स्यात्' शब्द निपात (अव्यय) है और गम्य-बोध्य (विवक्षित अर्थ) का विशेषण (बोधकसूचक) होता है।
O Lord ! The word 'syāt', used in conjunction with the object of knowledge (artha), imparts to your sentences a definitive meaning explicatory of the manifold points of view (anekānta) and corroborates a particular attribute of the object. The word ‘syāt’ is a nipātal - a particle, an indeclinable - acknowledged by the Omniscients (kevalins) as well as the all-knowing Masters of Scripture (śrutakevalins); it qualifies the meaning of the sentence concerned.
1. An avyaya is a preposition, an indeclinable word or particle; a kind
of compound. Nipāta words are parts of avyaya used to communicate the meaning. The word 'syāt' is used in relation to a particular meaning, not in terms of doubt, possibility or vacillation (maybe, perhaps).
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