The Mīmāṃsā mission of disambiguating Vedic texts led the thinkers of the tradition to confront several instances of apparently conflicting Vedic commands. Consider the two cases: ‘give alms daily’ vs ‘do not give alms during ritual X’, and ‘never harm another’ vs ‘sacrifice an animal during ritual Y’. Each command in these two cases is derived from the Vedas and Mīmāṃsā authors thus attempted to resolve such cases of deontic conflict by putting forth hermeneutic solutions, without taking recourse to any other epistemic source. In this paper, I present several instances of conflicting Vedic commands and indicate three distinct types of deontic conflicts as well as their corresponding solutions as identified by Mīmāṃsā thinkers. This study is based on discussions put forth in four important Mīmāṃsā texts: the Pūrvamīmāṃsāsūtra , the Śābarabhāṣya , Kumārila’s Ṭupṭīkā and Āpadeva’s Mīmāṃsānyāyaprakāśa . I explain the foundational difference between prescriptions ( vidhi ) and prohibitions ( pratiṣedha / niṣedha ) for Mīmāṃsā thinkers, and thereby also discuss several technical conceptions such as paryudāsa , vikalpa , prāpti and bādha among others. In doing so, I attempt to highlight certain fundamental tenets of the vast and intricate hermeneutic framework developed within the Mīmāṃsā tradition.

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当文本冲突时：Mīmāṃsā思想家关于冲突的处方和禁令

消除吠陀文本歧义的 Mīmāṃsā 任务导致传统思想家面对几个明显相互冲突的吠陀命令的实例。考虑两种情况：“每天施舍”与“在仪式 X 期间不施舍”，以及“从不伤害他人”与“在仪式 Y 期间牺牲一只动物”。这两个案例中的每个命令都源自吠陀经和 Mīmāṃsā 作者，因此试图通过提出解释学解决方案来解决此类道义冲突案例，而不求助于任何其他认知来源。在这篇论文中，我展示了几个韦达命令冲突的例子，并指出了三种不同类型的道义冲突以及它们对应的解决方案，正如 Mīmāṃsā 思想家所确定的那样。本研究基于四个重要的 Mīmāṃsā 文本中的讨论：Pūrvamīmāṃsāsūtra、Śābarabhāṣya、Kumārila 的 Ṭupṭīkā 和 Āpadeva 的 Mīmāṃsānyāyaprakāśa。我为 Mīmāṃsā 思想家解释了处方 (vidhi) 和禁令 (pratiṣedha / niṣedha) 之间的根本区别，从而还讨论了几个技术概念，例如 paryudāsa 、vikalpa 、prāpti 和 bādha 等。在这样做时，我试图强调在 Mīmāṃsā 传统中发展起来的庞大而复杂的解释学框架的某些基本原则。