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 3.7.146
Sanskrit text, Unicode transliteration and English translation of verse 3.7.146:
啶忇啷堗さ 啶膏ぞ 啶膏い啷� 啶多啷嵿い啶苦ぐ啷嵿う啷嵿さ啶苦ぐ啷傕お啶� 啶掂啶さ啶むた啶粪啶犩い啷� 啷�
啶ㄠた啶た啶む啶む 啶膏啶溹啶炧く啷嬥じ啷嵿い啶む啶� 啶ぐ啶ぞ 啶ぞ啶о啶い啷囙そ啶ぐ啶� 啷� 啷оオ啷� 啷�ekaiva s膩 sat墨 艣aktirdvir奴p膩 vyavati峁ａ弓hate |
nimitta峁� sa峁僯帽ayostatra paray膩 b膩dhyate'par膩 || 146 ||146. Or rather the power is really one, having two forms which are occasions for the application of two names. The earlier one is superseded by the later one.
Commentary
It is now stated that the two powers can be looked upon as one.
[Read verse 146 above]
[In the previous stanza, it was assumed that the same thing (the bow) had two distinct powers: that of being the starting point and that of being the instrument and that, in the act of shooting, both the powers play a part and so both the names become applicable. With the two names would come two suffixes after the same word which is impossible. So the later name was said to supersede the former and so only one suffix comes after the word. The difficulty can be solved in another way also; that is, by looking upon the two powers as one, the power of being the starting point being merged in that of being the instrument. In fact, the bow can be the instrument only because it is the starting point for the arrow to go off. The power is one and it does two actions related to each other as primary and secondary: the going-off of the arrow is secondary to the act of hitting.]