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 3.3.27
Sanskrit text, Unicode transliteration and English translation of verse 3.3.27:
啶呧じ啶距ぇ啶苦啶� 啶啶班い啶苦啷嵿啷囙い啶� 啶ㄠ啶ぎ啷囙さ啶距き啶苦ぇ啷�啶い啷� 啷�
啶ぅ啶� 啶むぅ啶距じ啷嵿く 啶оぐ啷嵿ぎ啷嬥そ啶た 啶ㄠ啶� 啶曕ざ啷嵿啶苦い啷� 啶啶班い啷�啶い啷� 啷� 啷ㄠキ 啷�as膩dhik膩 pratij帽eti neyamev膩bhidh墨yate |
yath膩 tath膩sya dharmo'pi naiva ka艣cit prat墨yate || 27 ||27. The statement: 鈥渁 mere assertion does not prove the point鈥� does not apply to that statement itself. Similarly, the property (incorrectness) is not understood as applicable to this sentence.
Commentary
[It is true that incorrectness cannot be attributed to the meaning of the sentence sarvam mithy膩 brav墨mi without its giving up its expressivity (惫腻肠补办补迟惫补) and becoming the expressed (惫腻肠测补). But incorrectness may be attributed to it in another way. After all, it is also one of the sentences uttered by the person in question and if all that the person says is wrong, this sentence would also be wrong. To meet this objection, another illustration is given. 厂腻诲丑测补苍颈谤诲别艣补岣� 辫谤补迟颈箩帽腻 s膩dhan膩峁単am na bhavati is a statement of the Bauddhas which means: 鈥淎 statement of the thing to be proved is what is called assertion and it cannot become part of the proof.鈥� This does not apply to this very statement. Otherwise, it cannot convey what is intended to be conveyed. Therefore, the statement that assertion is not part of the proof does not apply to this assertion. It applies to others. In the same way, the incorrectness mentioned in the sentence; 鈥�sarvam mithy膩 brav墨mi鈥� does not apply, to that- sentence itself. All this reasoning applies to the word a惫腻肠测补 as applied to 蝉补尘补惫腻测补.]