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 3.7.85
Sanskrit text, Unicode transliteration and English translation of verse 3.7.85:
啶啷嵿い啷嵿さ啶� 啶啶溹啶い 啶囙い啷嵿く啶む啶� 啶曕啶粪ぞ啶傕啶苦え啷嵿え 啶掂啶お啷囙啷嵿し啶む 啷�
啶撪う啶ㄠ 啶啶むた啶� 啶膏啶洁じ啶距さ啶ㄠ啶ぞ啶ㄠぞ啶む 啶啶班い啷�啶い啷� 啷� 啷カ 啷�paktv膩 bhujyata ityatra ke峁Ｄ佱箖cinna vyapek峁te |
odana峁� pacati岣� so's膩vanum膩n膩t prat墨yate || 85 ||85. In the sentence 鈥榓fter cooking, it (the rice) is eaten (paktvaudano bhujyate), according to some, the root 鈥榯o cook鈥� does not require rice as its object. That (rice is the object) is understood by inference.
Commentary
[Others explain the sentence paktvaudano bhujyate differently. According to them, the rice is not the object of the action of cooking at all. All that the sentence means is: after cooking, the rice is eaten. It does not say that the rice is cooked, In other words, this is not a case of one and the same thing being the object of two actions openly. Openly it becomes the object of one action only, that of eating. That it is the object of cooking also is understood by inference rather than from the words. The inference is due to the fact that cooking is also mentioned in the same sentence. The inference is possible because the two actions stand in the relation of primary and secondary to each other. That is why the former view is better.]
The author now extends this principle to the other accessories (办腻谤补办补).