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 3.1.71
Sanskrit text, Unicode transliteration and English translation of verse 3.1.71:
啶掂た啶оた啶掂ぞ啶曕啶ぞ啶ㄠ啶むぐ啷� 啶膏啶栢啶ぞ 啶ざ啷嬥ぐ啷嵿え啶距じ啷嵿い啶� 啶掂た啶班啶оた啶ㄠ 啷�
啶むじ啷嵿ぎ啶距い啷嵿じ啶椸啶� 啶忇さ啶距じ啷� 啶膏う啷囙啶む啶掂啶� 啶椸ぎ啷嵿く啶む 啷� 啷ェ 啷�vidhiv膩ky膩ntare sa峁卆khy膩 pa艣orn膩sti virodhin墨 |
tasm膩tsa驳耻峁嘺 ev膩sau sadekatvena gamyate || 71 ||71. There is no contradictory number for the animal in some other injunctive sentence; therefore, it (the animal) is understood together with its qualities and the singular number.
Commentary
The author now points out that the case is different in the sentence pa艣un膩 yajeta.
[Read verse 71 above]
[As to the sentence, pa艣un膩 yajeta, it teaches sacrifice with the animal as its accessory (驳耻峁嘺). The animal is taught for the first time. Therefore, the particular number expressed by the suffix is also significant. Together with the animal which is specified, it becomes an accessory of the sacrifice. This way of looking at it is in accordance with the view of the M墨m膩峁僺akas. (See M墨. S奴. III. 1.7.13-15).]
The author now says something about other qualities besides number.