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 3.8.50
Sanskrit text, Unicode transliteration and English translation of verse 3.8.50:
啶班ぞ啶溹啶炧 啶啶む啶班じ啷嵿く 啶ㄠお啷嵿い啷囙い啶� 啶� 啶班ぞ啶溹啶炧た 啶掂啶い啶苦ぐ啶苦啷嵿く啶む 啷�
啶啶む啶班じ啷嵿く啶距ぐ啷嵿ぅ啶� 啶啶班ぇ啶距え啶む啶掂 啶� 啶氞ぞ啶膏啶� 啶掂た啶ㄠた啶掂ぐ啷嵿い啶む 啷� 啷ウ 啷�r膩j帽a岣� putrasya napteti na r膩j帽i vyatiricyate |
putrasy膩rtha岣� pradh膩natva峁� na c膩sya vinivartate || 50 ||50. In the sentence: r膩j帽a岣� putrasya napt膩 = a grandson of the king鈥檚 son, the meaning of the word son is not secondary (na vyatiricyate) in regard to that of the word king nor is its importance in any way affected.
Commentary
All illustration of something having two characteristics in relation to two different things is now given.
[Read verse 50 above]
[In the sentence r膩j帽a岣� putrasya napt膩 = grandson of the king鈥檚 son, the meaning of son is secondary in regard to that of grandson but primary in regard to that of king. In the same way, the meaning of the word 辫腻办补 is both siddha and 蝉腻诲丑测补 in regard to two different words.]
A better example is now given:鈥�