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 3.7.86
Sanskrit text, Unicode transliteration and English translation of verse 3.7.86:
啶むい啷嵿ぐ啶距き啶苦え啶苦さ啶苦ざ啷� 啶曕ぐ啷嵿ぎ 啶い啷嵿い啶苦啶ㄠ啶む啶洁き啶苦ぇ啷�啶い啷� 啷�
啶曕啶む啶掂ぞ啶ㄠ啶む啶洁ぇ啶苦啶班ぃ啶む啶掂啶洁お啶� 啶� 啶むい啷嵿ぐ啷囙啷嵿啶ㄠ啶むた 啶膏お啷嵿い啶啶 啷� 啷ガ 啷�tatr膩bhinivi艣au karma yatti峁卆nte'bhidh墨yate |
办迟惫腻nte'dhikara峁嘺tve'pi na tatrecchanti saptam墨m || 86 ||86. (In the sentence: 鈥榓fter eating, the city is entered = bhu办迟惫腻 nagaro'bhinivisyate) that which is the object of the verb 补产丑颈苍颈惫颈艣 and is expressed by the verbal suffix is the substratum of the action denoted by the word ending in 办迟惫腻 and yet the use of the locative case-ending to express it is not wanted.
Commentary
[It is not merely the power of being an object which is sometimes understood though not expressed. Other accessories are also sometimes in the same position. In bhu办迟惫腻 nagaro'bhinivi艣yate = after eating, the city is entered, the verbal suffix expresses the fact of the city being the object (karmatva). The fact that the city is the substratum of the action of eating is not openly expressed by anything and yet it is understood. Similarly in nagare'bhinivi艣ya bhu峁卥te = he eats in the city after entering it, the city is the substratum of the action of eating as expressed by the verbal suffix. By inference it is understood to be the object of the action of entering.]
The author now explains how, in the sentence gu岣峚m bhak峁yati = he eats sugar, sugar comes within the definition of an object.