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 3.7.4
Sanskrit text, Unicode transliteration and English translation of verse 3.7.4:
啶啶︵啶оく啶� 啶膏ぎ啶距す啶苦い啷堗啶む啶掂ぞ啶ㄠ 啶啷嵿啶距げ啶距え啷� 啶曕啶班啶た啶班啶う啶� 啷�
啶啶ㄠぐ啷嵿さ啶苦き啶溹い啷� 啶掂啷嵿い啶� 啶むう啶距そ啶ぞ啶 啶啶班い啷�啶い啷� 啷� 啷� 啷�buddhay膩 sam膩hitaikatv膩n pa帽c膩l膩n kurubhiryad膩 |
punarvibhajate vakt膩 tad膩'p膩ya岣� prat墨yate || 4 ||4. When the speaker first unites the P膩帽c膩las and Kurus mentally and then divides them, we understand what separation is.
Commentary
That the 鈥榤eans鈥� is something essentially mental is now confirmed.
[Read verse 4 above]
[It is because everything is a matter of cognition and intention that separation can be purely mental. Separation is taking apart preceded by joining (蝉补峁兣沴别峁辫奴谤惫补办辞 惫颈艣濒别峁岣�).
In Kurubhya岣� p膩帽c膩l膩 abhir奴patar膩岣�鈥�, there is, first of all, a bringing together (蝉补峁兣沴别峁) of Kurus and 笔腻帽肠腻濒腻蝉 mentally on the basis of their resemblance in good looks and then their separation (惫颈艣濒别峁) on account of the superiority of one over the other. The whole thing is mental. Even what is purely mental is quite enough to explain verbal usage. In the section dealing with the cases (办腻谤补办补), maximum degree is not ordinarily very important, because where it is important, Panini tells us so in some way, as by the use of the suffix 鈥�tamap鈥� in the 蝉奴迟谤补: 蝉腻诲丑补办补迟补尘补峁� 办补谤补峁嘺尘 (P. 1.4.42) ]
Another confirmation of the M. Bh膩. view follows.