Vakyapadiya of Bhartrihari
by K. A. Subramania Iyer | 1965 | 391,768 words
The English translation of the Vakyapadiya by Bhartrihari including commentary extracts and notes. The Vakyapadiya is an ancient Sanskrit text dealing with the philosophy of language. Bhartrhari authored this book in three parts and propounds his theory of Sphotavada (sphota-vada) which understands language as consisting of bursts of sounds conveyi...
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Verse 1.93
Sanskrit text, Unicode transliteration and English translation of verse 1.93:
啶呧え啷囙啶掂啶啷嵿い啷嵿く啶た啶掂啶啷嵿啷嵿く啶� 啶溹ぞ啶むた啶� 啶膏啶啶� 啶囙い啶� 啶膏啶啶むぞ 啷�
啶曕啶多啶氞た啶︵ 啶掂啶啷嵿い啶� 啶忇さ啶距じ啷嵿く啶� 啶о啶掂え啶苦い啷嵿さ啷囙え 啶啶班啶侧啶た啶むぞ啶� 啷� 啷ォ 啷�anekavyaktyabhivya峁単y膩 j膩ti岣� 蝉辫丑辞峁璦 iti sm峁泃膩 |
kai艣cid vyaktaya ev膩sy膩 dhvanitvena prakalpit膩岣� || 93 ||93. Some have declared the universal manifested by the individuals to be the 蝉辫丑辞峁璦 and what are called sounds (dhvanis) to be the individuals.
Commentary
Some, proclaiming the eternality of the word because of the eternality of the universals, declare that in statements such as the following
鈥淥n both sides, it is only the 蝉辫丑辞峁璦 which is shown: in place of the phoneme 鈥榬鈥� comes the phoneme 鈥業鈥�.鈥�1
It is the universal of the word which is called the 蝉辫丑辞峁璦, it is different from the universal called 鈥榳ord-ness鈥� and its fitness to be perceived is brought about gradually by its substrata which are produced in a sequence and do not coco-exist. The individual sounds which are produced and which make the unnameable 蝉辫丑辞峁璦 nameable get the name of sound (dhvani).2
Notes
1. M. Bh膩 I. p. 26, 1. 1.
2. Before, in verse 69, it was declared that the universal is the name and that the individual is the named. Here, the view that the universal is the 蝉辫丑辞峁璦 is set forth.