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 2.346
Sanskrit text, Unicode transliteration and English translation of verse 2.346:
啶夃い啷嵿じ啶班啶椸さ啶距啷嵿く啷� 啶い啷嵿い啷嵿く啶曕啶むぎ啶多が啷嵿う啶た啶� 啶多が啷嵿う啶掂い啷� 啷�
啶むう啷� 啶ぞ啶о啷囙し啷� 啶掂ぞ啶曕啶啶粪 啶多啶班啶むぎ啶ㄠ啶い啷嵿ぐ 啶椸ぎ啷嵿く啶む 啷� 啷┼オ啷� 啷�utsargav膩kye yattyaktama艣abdamiva 艣abdavat |
tad b膩dhake峁 v膩kye峁 艣rutamanyatra gamyate || 346 ||346. Whatever is excluded implicitly, if not explicitly, from the operation of the general rules, is explicitly mentioned in the special rules of exception and that is really part of the meaning of the general rule.
Commentary
Something is now being said about the relation of 产腻诲丑测补 and 产腻诲丑补办补 (what is set aside and what sets aside) between the original rules and their exceptions.
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[A general rule does not really cover special cases though there is nothing in the rule itself to tell us so. But when the author of the general rule framed it, he knew about it.
An example of the same from the world is now given鈥�
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