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 3.7.91
Sanskrit text, Unicode transliteration and English translation of verse 3.7.91:
啶掂じ啷嵿い啷佮い啶膏啶むう啶ㄠた啶班啶︵啶多啶 啶� 啶灌た 啶掂じ啷嵿い啷� 啶掂啶さ啶膏啶ムた啶むぎ啷� 啷�
啶膏啶ムぞ啶侧啶ぞ 啶啷嵿く啶� 啶囙い啷嵿く啷囙し啶� 啶掂た啶掂啷嵿し啶� 啶︵啶多啶い啷� 啶い啶� 啷� 啷ェ 啷�vastutastadanirde艣ya峁� na hi vastu vyavasthitam |
sth膩ly膩 pacyata itye峁Ｄ� vivak峁Ｄ� d峁浥泍ate yata岣� || 91 ||91. In reality, nothing can be indicated as the instrument, nothing is predetermined to be so. Because, one does see speakers wishing to say that the cooking is done with the pot (sth膩ly膩 pacati).
Commentary
[What is called instrument is not something having any particular characteristic such as a particular universal. Nothing is predetermined to be the instrument. The pot is known to be the receptacle of cooking, but a speaker may sometimes say that the cooking is done with the pot when he wants to emphasise its particular suitability for the purpose.]
It is now stated that agents pay special attention (蝉补峁价补尘产丑补) to the instrument as it is the most useful accessory.