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 3.7.144
Sanskrit text, Unicode transliteration and English translation of verse 3.7.144:
啶啶︵ぞ啶啶︵ 啶啶ム啷嵿き啶距さ啶� 啶膏啶ムた啶むた啶多啶氞啶むた 啶掂た啶班啶оた啶ㄠ 啷�
啶啶椸お啶ㄠ啶� 啶掂た啶掂啷嵿し啷嵿さ啶ㄠ啶む 啶膏ぐ啷嵿さ啷� 啶оぐ啷嵿ぎ啶� 啶掂げ啶距す啶曕 啷� 啷оオ啷� 啷�bhed膩bhedau p峁泃hagbh膩va岣� sthiti艣ceti virodhina岣� |
yugapanna vivak峁ante sarve dharm膩 val膩hake || 144 ||144. Difference, identity, separation, resting place鈥攖hese mutually contradictory properties in regard to the cloud are not desired to be conveyed by the speaker at the same time.
Commentary
How one and the same thing becomes a different 办腻谤补办补 is now explained.
[Read verse 144 above]
[If, according to the 惫腻谤迟迟颈办补: 补辫腻诲腻苍补m uttar膩峁噄 (v膩. 30 on P. 1.4.1.), the 办腻谤补办补s taught after 补辫腻诲腻苍补 supersede it, how do we get expressions like val膩hak膩d vidyotate, valahake vidyotate and val膩hako vidyotate where 惫补濒腻丑补办补 is 补辫腻诲腻苍补 also. The answer is that it is a question of how the speaker wants to present it. Light is one of the constituents of a cloud. If the speaker wants to present it as different from the cloud, as something coming out of the cloud which is the starting point, then the fifth case-affix would come after the word 惫补濒腻丑补办补. But it is open to the speaker to present the cloud not as the starting point but as the resting point and say val膩hake vidyotate = 鈥榠t flashes in the cloud鈥�. It is also open to the speaker to present the light as identical with the cloud and say val膩hako vidyotate = 鈥榯he cloud flashes鈥�. These expressions are used only in turn, according to the speaker鈥檚 intention. So they do not go against the 惫腻谤迟迟颈办补 in question.]
It is now going to be shown that the 惫腻谤迟迟颈办补 in question applies when both the powers are meant to be conveyed at the same time.