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 2.331
Sanskrit text, Unicode transliteration and English translation of verse 2.331:
啶啶班い啶苦が啷嬥ぇ啶距き啷嵿く啷佮お啶距く啶距じ啷嵿い啷� 啶 啶む 啶む 啶啶班啶粪 啶啶班い啶� 啷�
啶ㄠぞ啶掂ざ啷嵿く啶� 啶む啶洁き啶苦じ啶傕が啶︵啶оぞ啶� 啶多が啷嵿う啶� 啶溹啶炧啶啶� 啶掂じ啷嵿い啷佮え啶� 啷� 啷┼ォ啷� 啷�pratibodh膩bhyup膩y膩stu ye ta峁� ta峁� puru峁峁� prati |
n膩va艣ya峁� te'bhisa峁僢addh膩岣� 艣abd膩 j帽eyena vastun膩 || 331 ||331. The means whereby the meaning is understood and which differ in the case of each person are not in any way connected with the thing to be known from the sentence.
Commentary
If only the sentence is real, what is the use of analysing it into words?
[Read verse 331 above]
[The idea is that the artificial divisions are the means of understanding the integrated sentence.