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 3.8.60
Sanskrit text, Unicode transliteration and English translation of verse 3.8.60:
啶ㄠた啶班啶︵啶多 啶氞ぐ啶苦い啶距ぐ啷嵿ぅ啶む啶掂ぞ啶侧啶侧た啶權啶椸 啶ぞ啶掂啶洁さ啶苦さ啶曕啶粪た啶むぎ啷� 啷�
啶夃お啶ぞ啶膏さ啶苦ぇ啶む啶掂ぞ啶氞啶� 啶ぞ啶掂ぞ啶︵え啷嵿く啶む 啶啶距う啶苦し啷� 啷� 啷ウ 啷�nirde艣e carit膩rthatv膩lli峁単a峁� 产丑腻惫别'vivak峁tam |
upam膩savidhatv膩cca bh膩v膩danyat pac膩di峁 || 60 ||60. In the word 产丑腻惫别 the gender is not significant as its purpose is only to help in the teaching (nirde艣e carit膩rthatv膩t). As comparison is involved in it, the meaning of roots like 鈭�pac is somewhat different from 产丑腻惫补 (Being, Action).
Commentary
[The meaning of a stem (辫谤腻迟颈辫补诲颈办补) is in the nature of a thing and it can only be expressed by a word having some gender or other. At the time of the application of the 蝉奴迟谤补 P.3.3.18., the meaning of the word 产丑腻惫别 must be taken shorn of its gender. It also implies comparison, so that it means that the notion expressed by the suffixes in question added to the different roots is like the notion conveyed by the word 产丑腻惫补, formed from the root 产丑奴. It means: Just as 产丑腻惫补 is the meaning of 鈭�产丑奴, so is 辫腻办补 that of 鈭�pac and 迟测腻驳补 that of 鈭�tyaj and this is the meaning of the suffix 驳丑补帽.]
Another way of looking at it is now being given.