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 2.284
Sanskrit text, Unicode transliteration and English translation of verse 2.284:
啶嬥し啷嵿く啶距う啷� 啶啶班ぞ啶啶むじ啶傕じ啷嵿啶距ぐ啷� 啶 啶多が啷嵿う啷嬥そ啶ㄠ啶啶� 啶啶溹啶い啷� 啷�
啶むい啷嵿ぐ啶距え啷嵿い啶班啷嵿啶� 啶膏啶膏啶曕ぞ啶班 啶ぞ啶灌啶啶洁ぐ啷嵿ぅ啷� 啶� 啶ㄠた啶掂ぐ啷嵿い啶む 啷� 啷ㄠギ啷� 啷�峁涐梗y膩dau pr膩ptasa峁僺k膩ro ya岣� 艣abdo'nyena yujyate |
tatr膩ntara峁単a岣� sa峁僺k膩ro b膩hye'rthe na nivartate || 284 ||284. A word which attains its correct form as the name of a 峁氠梗颈 and is then applied to denote something else does not lose its inner correctness of form when applied to a different object.
Commentary
[A word gets its correct form before it enters into a sentence and it-keeps that form even after entering into the sentence in a secondary sense. As the 痴峁泃迟颈 puts it.. .tad膩 svavi峁ye 蝉颈诲诲丑补岣� sa峁僺k膩ro bahira峁単膩rthapr膩durbh膩ve na nivartate.]
Some deny the distinction between primary and secondary meanings. They are answered as follows鈥�