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 3.7.116
Sanskrit text, Unicode transliteration and English translation of verse 3.7.116:
啶掂ぞ啶曕啶 啶膏ぎ啷嵿お啶︵啶い啷� 啶曕ぐ啷嵿い啶� 啶膏啶樴啷嵿さ啷嵿く啶ㄠ啶むじ啷嵿く 啶曕ぅ啷嵿く啶む 啷�
啶掂啶む啶む 啶膏啶о啶さ啶ㄠ啶む啶むた 啶啶班ぞ啶灌啶ぃ啶距え啶距 啶膏啶掂い啶ㄠ啶む啶班い啶� 啷� 啷оェ啷� 啷�v膩kye sampadyate kart膩 sa峁僩hacvyantasya kathyate |
v峁泃tau sa峁僤h墨bhavant墨ti br膩hma峁嚹乶膩峁� svatantrat膩 || 116 ||116. In the sentence, it is the word 鈥�蝉补峁単丑补鈥� which is the agent of the action denoted by the suffix 鈥�cvi鈥� but in a complex formation (惫峁泃迟颈) it is the word 产谤腻丑尘补峁嘺岣� which is the agent.
Commentary
Difference of scope is now explained in another way.
[Read verse 116 above]
[The expression 鈥�sa峁単h墨bhavanti 产谤腻丑尘补峁嚹佱弗,鈥� is an illustration of P. 5.4.50. To explain it in a sentence, one would say; asa峁単ho 产谤腻丑尘补峁嚹佱弗 sa峁単ho bhavati. In the former sentence, the verb is in the plural, showing that 产谤腻丑尘补峁嚹佱弗 is the agent of the action of becoming 蝉补峁単丑补, (group, association), that is, the material is the agent. In the explanatory sentence, it is the modification, the 蝉补峁単丑补, which is the agent.]
Here is an indication pointed out by the author of the M.Bh膩. that the original material can become the agent.