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 1.136
Sanskrit text, Unicode transliteration and English translation of verse 1.136:
啶膏い啷嬥そ啶掂た啶掂啷嵿し啶� 啶ぞ啶班ぞ啶班啶ム啶 啶掂啶啷嵿い啶苦ぐ啶班啶ムじ啷嵿く 啶侧啶權啶椸た啶曕 啷�
啶囙い啶� 啶ㄠ啶ぞ啶 啶す啷佮さ啶苦ぇ啶膏啶むぐ啷嵿啷囙ぃ 啶啶班さ啶苦き啶溹啶い啷� 啷� 啷оォ啷� 啷�sato'vivak峁Ｄ� p膩r膩rthya峁� vyaktirarthasya lai峁単ik墨 |
iti ny膩yo bahuvidhastarke峁嘺 pravibhajyate || 136 ||136. Sometimes what the words say is not meant, sometimes it is included in something wider, sometimes it is specified by other indications, many such conclusions are arrived at by reasoning.
Commentary
In the 厂奴迟谤补蝉鈥�
鈥淲hat the agent wishes most to reach is the object.鈥� (P. 1.4.49)
础苍诲鈥�
鈥淭he suffix has the meaning of 鈥榗hild of鈥� so and so.鈥� (P. 4.1.92.)
And in the sentence鈥�
鈥淗e cleans the vessel鈥� (Cf. Tai. Sa峁�. 3.2.2.3 and Jai. M墨. S奴. 3.1.13-14.)
And in the 厂奴迟谤补鈥�
鈥淭he person for whom the object is meant is the recepient.鈥� (P. 1.4.32.)
And in鈥�
鈥淭hose who live on a woman have attained the characteristic of a dead person鈥�
gender, number and tense are not meant; sometimes they are meant; such specification in regard to definitions depend upon reasoning. Similarly, in the sentence
鈥淗e should release his speech after seeing the star.鈥� (K膩. 艢a峁�. 23.5.)
The seeing of the star is meant to convey a particular time (when the stars are ordinarily visible). Thus, it, the releasing (of speech), is done when the main thing (the time) is otherwise ascertained or as (seeing the star) stands for something else, the particular time is ascertained when the stars are visible. In the sentence 鈥榣et the curds be protected from crows,鈥� as it is meant to ward off all damage, even if there are no crows, the curds are protected from dogs etc. As the sentence 鈥榣et the vessels be cleaned鈥� is meant to denote the completion of all the preliminaries to the act of eating, even if there are no vessels, the other preliminaries are completed. Clarifications can be done by other indications also (濒颈峁単补). In the sentence 鈥渉e puts the sugar mixed with fat,鈥� all kinds of fat come to the mind, but through the indication contained in the sentence鈥�
鈥淐larified butter is indeed lustre itself鈥�
A particular fat is understood. Such conclusions are reached by reasoning and definitions are specified.